The trapper sat down very near Little Hammer, and began to smoke.
Good trapper he is, but the fame he has earned among adventurers of his class is not from fur-getting.
A very original scheme," said Trapper Jim, patting Max on the back.
You seem to be taking mighty good care of it," said Max, who was deeply interested in everything the trapper was doing.
So they talked on, and Trapper Jim told lots of mighty interesting things as he smoked his old black pipe and sent curling wreaths of blue smoke up the broad throat of the chimney.
Talking in this strain, and picking up useful as well as interesting information from time to time, as Trapper Jim explained things to the boys who were his guests, the evening passed pleasantly away.
Steve, who had been wise enough to snatch up his gun before following the trapper out of the door.
To the satisfaction of the trapper this furnished a victim equal in size to the first one.
Forgotten just then was the injunction of the old trapper that they should not shoot any thing that wore fur, as it would cheat him out of all his expected profits.
Well, take my advice, son, and fight it off," remarked Trapper Jim.
They make splendid furs," was what the trapper remarked.
Trapper Jim was to occupy the lower one, and turn about, the five boys were to have the other.
Ed Whitcomb was made comfortable in the lower bunk, and the boys at once agreed the trapper was to occupy the other.
The young trapper saw at a glance what a comment this was upon his skill in the art, and, indignantly exhuming the iron, he walked home with it, the stream of silver quarters suddenly setting in another direction.
I knew an oldtrapper who, on finding himself outwitted in this manner, tied a bit of cheese to the pan, and next morning had poor Reynard by the jaw.
After a week of baiting in this manner, and on the eve of a light fall of snow, the trapper carefully conceals his trap in the bed, first smoking it thoroughly with hemlock boughs to kill or neutralize all smell of the iron.
The successful trapper commences in the fall, or before the first deep snow.
Hector had so far recovered as to be able to sit up, and to show that he was likely to do justice to the fare the old trapper expected to provide for the party.
He himself felt how nearly he had succumbed, and he wished that he had begged the old trapper to go on at once, and left the Indian with him.
With the aid of the old trapper he got into the saddle.
It was fully expected that the old trapper would some day make his appearance, but time went by, and no tidings could be gained of him.
Loraine having briefly explained what had happened, inquired how the old trapper had fallen in with Greensnake.
The trapper knew where to look for it, however, and when he placed his hands upon the wall, one of the stones began to move.
The Mexican was the nearer to him, but the fleet-footed trapper was getting over the ground at the rate of ten feet to his one.
The boys gazed long and earnestly at the building, and Archie was a good deal disappointed because he did not see some signs of the curious things the old trapper had witnessed there.
He did not believe that Don Carlos had any thing to do with the horse-thieves, and yet it did not seem possible that such proceedings as the old trapper had witnessed could go on in his rancho without his knowledge.
For a few moments after the trapper ceased speaking, the boys stood looking at him and at one another in blank amazement.
They had no desire to take the trapper alive, for the Don had not offered a reward of fifty thousand dollars for him; but they believed that he was quite as dangerous to them as Frank was, for he was acquainted with their secret.
The strong breeze that was blowing gave to it a gentle undulating motion, and this it was that the old trapper had compared to the "rolling and tumbling of the smoke from the mouth of a cannon.
We said that, when Frank ran toward the woods, the trapper started off in the opposite direction.
The trapper was seated on a bench beside the door, busy at work on a new hunting shirt, which, like all the rest of his garments, was gaudily ornamented with beads and bright-colored pieces of cloth.
Many a time, during the next three or four days, it was noticed that he earnestly regarded the trapper as if he had not quite made up his mind that he was the genuine Dick Lewis after all.
The trapper pounded the ground with the butt of his rifle, gazed proudly at the boys, and went on with his explanation.
The boys looked up to see what had caused this exclamation, and discovered the trapperstanding at a little distance from them, closely watching their operations.
Any one who had known Old Sol was worth cultivating, in the eyes of the Indian boy, who had looked upon the veteran trapper as a veritable wonder.
Of course, and I hope I haven't forgotten the lessons he taught me; for there never was a better trapper known than Sol in his prime.
The flint lancet was applied to the veins of the white man; their garments were dyed with his blood; they departed for their nation's village, and the poor trapper for the beaver among the hills.
An aged knight of the order of horns strode across our path near four o'clock, and by his princely bearing invited our trapper to a tilt.
Our new friends related, in this connexion, the death of one of their old companions, a brave old trapper of the name of Redman.
A strong and warm shake of the hand, and various contortions of the face, and uncouth gestures of recognition between them, completed their interview, and the swarthy old trapper approached myself and men.
I had {74} heard from every trapper whom I had met on my journey.
An old trapper was sent from this fort to the Eutaw camp, with a well-assorted stock of goods, and a body of men to guard it.
The grave of the victim is there--a warning to all who would trifle with the vested rights of an American trapper in the love of an Indian beauty.
Ye see the beasties are found in heavy timber and broken country, and that gives the trapper more protection from cold and storms.
For some time after the straight form of the brawny young trapper and the dingy depot of the little village had faded from view the boys stood watching the panorama of frozen wilderness.
A long line is usually planned on a sort of loop when the country will permit, so that the trapper may go out one way and return another.
I've known a trapper to camp two or three nights on the trail of a bar that had gone off with a trap before he could catch up with the critter.
If he once gets nipped in a trap and gets away it is a smart trapper who can get him in another.
The trapper was studying the fox with the critical stare of the expert.
An old woodsman andtrapper I scraped acquaintance with.
Begin with the kinds of fur, and the ways in which it is trapped, and the life of a trapper and all that sort of stuff," suggested Upton.
A Cree trapper had found Jan's violin in the snow, and had brought it to Maballa.
At times a trapper would come in to get a stock of supplies, and John and Ben listened eagerly to every word he said about his experiences.
From a trapper the boy had learned that a band of Mescalero Apaches had left the reservation three weeks before, crossed into Mexico, gone plundering down the Pecos, and was now heading back toward the Staked Plains.
Chapter XXIV Jimmie-Go-Get-'Em Leaves a Note Prince and his posse were camped in a little park near the headquarters of Saco de Oro Creek when a trapper brought word to Billie of the death of Webb.
Some winters before an American trapper (in Oregon tradition reputed to have been Jedediah Smith), watched the Nez Perces dance around the sun-pole on the present site of Walla Walla.
Pears now, maybe I heerd he wuz Guv'ner," said the keen-eyed trapper thoughtfully.
Into every lonely glen where the beaver built his house, the trapper came.
A trapper can always take up as much powder and ball as he wants upon credit, and pay with a portion of his skins on his return.
A Tree Trapper and occasionally a Sky Sweeper; a beautiful and familiar bird of the brush and tangles.
This Woodpecker is not only a beautiful, but a useful, Citizen, doing almost as much work in the guild of Ground Gleaners as the Meadowlark, besides being a Tree Trapper and Seed Sower.
The great hunter and trapper who had tamed the wilderness about the region of the Divide--as far as mortal man could tame it--had a skin that was rather the color of old leather.
His own grandfather had been a hunter and trapper and frontiersman in a certain vast but little known Oregon forest.
Pierre's last three words had a touch of irony, for he knew that the Trapper had a precious tongue for Scripture when a missionary passed that way, and a bad name with women to give it point.
The Trapper was laughing silently to himself to hear Pierre in this romantic mood.
From all I hear them Germans is a mighty bad crowd, and they need the worst thrashin' any lot of people ever got," the trapper continued.
Sweet Jackson and Mitch' Jenkins, their guns across their knees, were seated near the camp fire eating the breakfast the old trapper was serving them.
When the trapper stepped into the room the slumber of the two boys appeared to be profound.
Hearing voices outside, he conjectured that the old trapper had been delayed by the arrival of visitors.
The trapper asked for news and Ted outlined the general situation as he had understood it before the swamp misadventure cut him off from sources of information.
It was in the wake of trapper and fur trader that English and American pioneer advanced across our continent to the Pacific; just as in French Canada Jesuit priest and voyageur opened the way for the settler.
The Lena especially, from its source down to its eastern elbow at Yakutsk, that great rendezvous of Siberian fur traders, was a highway for trapper and Cossack tribute-gatherer.
So the plodding farmer from Normandy and the fisherman from Poitou, transferred to Canadian soil, were irresistibly drawn into the adventurous life of the trapper and fur-trader.
They opened up only restricted fur fields which were soon exhausted, so that the migrant trapper was here early converted into the agricultural settler, his shifting camp fire into the hearthstone of the farmhouse.
Though the fur trapper as a rule is a most gentle creature, the "quality of mercy is not strained" in furring.
Now it chanced that the old Indian, who was the most cunning trapper in all the wilderness of Northern New Brunswick, though he seemed so intent upon his fishing, was in reality watching the great eagle.
Under the uppermost edge of the hoop the trapper fixed a firm prop, making the structure steady and secure.
No waiting fox or hiding grouse could have lain more immovable, could have held his muscles in more patient perfect stillness, than did the wary old trapper through the chill hour of growing dawn.
Its butt the trapper drove slantingly into the sand where the water was an inch or two deep, bracing it securely with stones.
During the hunt, regardless of Indian vicinity, the fearless trapper wanders far and near in search of 'sign.
The free trapper is supplied by the company with traps and certain other conveniences with which he plunges into the forest on his own hook, engaging however to sell to the company, at a stipulated price, whatever furs he may secure.
One old trapper became so angry when his stories of the place were doubted, that he deliberately revenged himself by inventing tales of which Münchhausen would have been proud.
Not far from the volcanic cliff which gave the trapperinspiration for his story, we reached one of the most famous basins of the Park.
You could not hit that," said a trapper to Henri, who was rather fond of jeering him about his shortsightedness.
Despite their utmost efforts, a horse was occasionally stolen before their very eyes, and sometimes even an unfortunate trapper was murdered, and all his traps carried off.
The truth of this could not be doubted, for the eccentric trapper had thrust his shovel through the wall of snow into what appeared to be a cavern beyond, and immediately followed up his remark by thrusting in his head and shoulders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trapper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
