He said he’d give anything if he could get some good hounds for me, but there didn’t seem to be any way he could right then.
I went off to bed with my heart all torn up in little pieces, and cried myself to sleep.
The next day Papa had to go to the store. Late that evening I saw him coming back.
As fast as I could, I ran to meet him, expecting a sack of candy. Instead he handed me three small steel traps.
If Santa Claus himself had come down out of the mountains, reindeer and all, I would not have been more pleased.
I jumped up and down, and cried a whole bucketful of tears.
I hugged him and told him what a wonderful papa he was.
He showed me how to set them by mashing the spring down with my foot, and how to work the trigger.
I took them to bed with me that night. The next morning I started trapping around the barn.
The first thing I caught was Samie, our house cat.
If this didn’t cause a commotion! I didn’t intend to catch him.
I was trying to catch a rat, but somehow he came nosing around and got in my trap.
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