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many minutes turned and the
animals are a trap. Also Yvette
discovered my large wooden traps
dragged half way into a hole with a
baby mammal safely caught. It was
a little fellow about ten inches long
covered with soft yellow-white fur.
We turned in at good dark...
Wed June 18 This morning before we saw the
magnol came to the front door to tell me
that a mammal was in one of our traps.
I ran hurriedly and ran over to the
place but found that this animal had
gotten himself loose before I arrived.
While I was resetting the trap the
magnol saw a mammal run up from
the summit of a mountain and then
disappear. He had a trap there it seems
enough he was fast in a big double
spring trap by the right fore leg. He was
well down into the hole half around a
curve and it took every ounce of my
strength to drag him out. I never
knew that an animal of its size
could be so strong. It was a huge
black male with fine pelage, with
his eyes with hair still unshorn.
A further check of traps many more were
found and while we had a female in
from other traps were springy. It requires
a heavy double spring to hold these