Identifier: threeyoungcruso00murr (find matches)
Title: Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Murrill, William A.
Subjects: Natural history--West Indies.
Publisher: New York city,: W. A. Murrill
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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rious palace. At first, wild pigs went inand ate up the bait but were too light to spring thetrigger, so the bait had to be placed up high out oftheir reach. Then a doe was trapped, and the gate closed on alittle fawn and left it outside the pen. The fawnwas too shy to be captured, but it followed its moth-er at a safe distance to her new quarters, and thatnight the boys left a little crack in the fence just bigenough for it to get through. About a week later,a buck with four prongs was caught, thus complet-ing the family. The deer soon became very tameand seemed to enjoy their captivity. The next trap used was a pitfall; just a hole withsteep sides, covered over the top with palm leavesand some tempting bait scattered about. The only152 Catching Wild Animals i $3 animals captured in the pitfall were wild pigs, andpork was already plentiful. William then fixed up some rabbit traps out ofhollow logs and set them along little trails in thewoods. His first catch was a possum and the next
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A mother possum and her affectionate family. a coon, which made him feel very much at home.The coon became a pet and had the run of the house,greatly to the disgust of the monkey. Big iguanas, several feet long, and numeroussmaller, brilliantly-colored lizards were easily caught 154 Three Young Crusoes with nooses and nets and the latter made excellent cap-tives because they caught most of their own food. Thesame was true of the little tree-toads, which earnedtheir living and furnished music besides. The ig-uana eats fruit chiefly, and that is probably why heis so highly prized for food.

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