superstitious Indian not only believes that the wolverine is possessed
of the devil--for it is the most destructive animal in the northern
world--but he considers it also to be endowed with great intelligence.
The wily Indian, however, knowing the animal's habit of trying to
destroy what it cannot carry away, takes advantage of that very fact
and hunts it accordingly.

All that has been said in relation to trapping the fox applies also to
_le Carcajou_--_i.e._, the wolverine--save that the trap chain should
be doubled, and everything else made stronger and heavier in proportion
to the wolverine's greater size and strength. That evening Oo-koo-hoo
talked much of wolverines.

"My son, no other animal surpasses it in devilish cunning. For it is
not content to merely spring a trap, but it will carry it away--more
often for a short distance, but sometimes for miles--and hide or bury
it. Later on the wolverine may visit it again, carry it still farther
away and bury it once more. The wolverine has good teeth for cutting
wood, and will sometimes free a trap from its clog by gnawing the pole
in two. My son, I have even known a wolverine go to the trouble of
digging a hole in which to bury a trap of mine; but just in order to
fool me, the beast has filled up the hole again, carried the trap to
another place, and there finally buried it. But as a good hunter is
very observant, he is seldom fooled that way, for the wolverine, having
very short legs, has difficulty in keeping both the chain and the trap
from leaving tell-tale marks in the snow.

"Yes, my son, the wolverine is a very knowing brute, and if he thinks
he may be trailed, he will sometimes--without the slightest sign of
premeditation--jump sideways over a bush, a log, or a rock, in order to