and are made with a half circle bed piece instead
of a straight bed piece, as the ordinary trap is made. I wish to call
your attention to how this trap fits the shoulders and how much
easier it is to carry than the trap with the straight bed piece and
note how much more readily you can get your gun into shape for
action. Many a deer has given me the slip before I could drop the
bear traps and get my gun ready for action when I have been toting
bear traps in the woods. But with this style of trap your gun can be
put in operation at once, regardless of the traps.

Boys, another thing that I have learned in the last five years'
experience in trapping in the south, (this was written Spring of
1913) is that it requires a trap a size larger to trap small fur
bearers in the south than it does in the north, owing to the
difference in conditions of the streams and the soil. Well friend
Bachelder, there is no use of you and I talking or worrying any more
over our bear traps or bear trapping. The gentleman sportsman and his
dog has ordered you and I and all other trappers of Pennsylvania for
that matter to cast our traps on to the scrap pile and we must
submit.

CHAPTER XIX.

Camps and Camping.

I will say that the conditions and location in which one is to camp
makes a great difference in the preparations. If one is just going
outside of town to camp for a few days outing, commodities may be to
your liking as to quality and quantity. In these days, should the
larder run low, it is only necessary for the camper to step out a
short distance to a farm house where he is almost sure to find a
telephone. In such cases all that the camper has to do is to 'phone
to town, ordering his favorite brands delivered to camp, and soon an
automobile is on the road laden with supplies, hastening to the
campers' relief.

Conditions are different when the camper is far from town; or perhaps
miles from a dwelling or perhaps even a public road and the camper is
compelled to pack his camp outfit, grub stake and all over miles of
rough trail, or it may be no trail at all; then the camper must
curtail his desires to their utmost limit.

If the camper is on strange ground, and the camp is to be permanent
or for some weeks, it is best for the camper not to be in too big a
hurry to select the camping ground, and take up with any sort of a
place. It is even better to make a temporary camp and look the
locality over and select a place where good