Capture of the Skunk.—­Chloride of Lime as Antidote.—­Method of Eradicating the Odor from the Clothing.—­Directions for Removing and Stretching the Skin.—­The wolverine.—­Its Desperate Fierceness and voracity.—­Its General Characteristics.—­Its Form and Color.—­Food of the Wolverine.—­Its Trap-Robbing Propensities.—­How to Trap the Wolverine.—­Baits.—­Use of the “Medicine.”—­The Gun Trap and Dead Fall.—­The Steel Trap.—­Various Modes of Setting.—­Home and Young of the Animal.—­How the Skin should be Removed and Stretched.—­The opossum.—­Description of the Animal.—­Its Nature and Habits.—­Its Home.—­Remarkable Mode of Carrying its Young.—­Nocturnal Habits of the Animal.—­Its Food.—­Its Especial Fondness for Persimmons.—­Its Remarkable Tenacity as a Climber.—­“Playing Possum.”—­How the Opossum is Hunted.—­How Trapped.—­Various Devices Used in its Capture.—­Scent Baits.—­How the Skin is Removed and Stretched.—­The rabbit.—­Wide-spread Distribution of the Various Species.—­Their Remarkable Powers of Speed.—­Nest of the Rabbit.—­Its Prolific Offspring.—­Food of the Rabbit.—­Its Enemies.—­Various Devices Used in Trapping the Animal.—­Necessary Precautions in Skinning the Rabbit.—­The woodchuck.—­Description of the Animal.—­Its Habits.—­Its Burrows.—­Its Food.—­Toughness of the Skin.—­Its Use.—­Nest of the Animal.—­The Woodchuck as Food.—­How the Animal is Trapped.—­The Steel Trap.—­The Spring Pole.—­The Twitch-up.—­How the Woodchuck is “Drowned Out.”—­The Turtle as a Ferret.—­Smoking the Burrows.—­Directions for Skinning the Animal.—­The Gopher.—­Its Burrows.—­Its Food.—­Remarkable Cheek Pouches of the Animal.—­Their Use.—­How to Trap the Animal.—­How the Skin is Removed.—­The mole.—­Its Varied Accomplishments.—­Its Remarkable Dwellings.—­Complicated Structure of the Habitation.—­The Fury and Voracity of the Mole.—­Peculiarities of Its Fur.—­A Waistcoat of Mole Skins.—­Odor of the Mole.—­Mole Traps.—­Various Species of the Mole.—­The Mole of the Cape of Good Hope.—­Marvellous Beauty of Its Fur.—­Squirrels.—­Their General Peculiarities of Form and Habit.—­Their Food.—­Their Provident Instincts.—­“Nutting” in Midwinter.—­The Nest of the Squirrel.—­Burrowing Squirrels.—­The Various American Species.—­The Grey Squirrel.—­The Chipmunk.—­The Chickaree.—­The Flying Squirrel, &c.—­How Squirrels are Trapped.—­Various Traps Used in their Capture.—­Removal of Skin.—­The deer.—­Difficulty of Hunting the Animal in Dry Seasons.—­Various American Species of the Deer.—­How the Deer is Trapped.—­Peculiar Construction of the Trap.—­Scent Bait for the Deer.—­Various Methods of Setting the Trap.—­Violence of the Deer when Trapped.—­The Clog.—­Dead Falls.—­Food of the Deer.—­Deer “Yards.”—­Natural Enemies of the Deer.—­How the Deer is Hunted.—­“Still Hunting.”—­The Deer’s Acute Sense of Smell.—­How to Detect the Direction of the Wind.—­Natural Habits of the Deer.—­“Night