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He asked a good question, and Corbie gave it some thought instead of moving immediately to the next step. "It could work to split the top, but the pressure on it might cause it to continue to split all the way down, so you wouldn't be able to reuse it. If you use sinew above and below, it might stop it from splitting..." she said thoughtfully. "But a forked stick might be better to use. Here, see, this is where the pressure will come from." Before she began she stuck two of the pieces of sinew into her mouth, then she grabbed the longest, thick stick and placed it on top of the two forked branches. Two more sticks, each a bit less than half the length of the top stick, she jammed into the ground near the center of the top stick but rather far forward of it, right on either side of the rabbit trail, then leaned each of them back towards the forked sticks to lean against them, forming a triangle between the straight stick, the forked stick, and the ground. Taking a piece of sinew out of her mouth where it had been getting steadily soaked, she tightly wrapped the wet sinew around the place where all three sticks on the one side met. When dried, the sinew would hold them tightly. She did the same to the other side, then with her mouth freed of the sinew she spoke again. "See, the center stick is going to hold the snare itself, so when the rabbit is caught it will be pulling down and maybe away, and the center branch will put a lot of pressure on the sticks holding it up. I think you could put the stick in a split in the uprights if you put sinew below it to stop the split, and sinew above it to keep it from bouncing out when its got something pulling on it, but you'd still need to figure out an attachment point for the diagonals too. These diagonals here," she indicated the shorter sticks that formed a triangle with the forked sticks, "they help a bit with keeping the frame straight and giving it rigidity. You can see that it also forces the rabbit straight down the center of the path, which is where we're going to put the loop, so they can't just happen to go to one side or the other and miss it."