THE WOLF HUNTERS 



skinning before the middle of November, when 

 the winter coat begins to get good, but there'll 

 be plenty of work to keep us busy, building, fitting 

 up camp, and getting ready for the cold weather. 

 It won't do for us to have our camp too close to 

 Fort Larned or the Santa Fe road, for around 

 there buffalo and wolves will be scarce, but we 

 want to be near enough to call for our mail oc- 

 casionally. Besides that, if Indians should be 

 troublesome it's a good thing to be nigh to Uncle 

 Sam's soldiers." 



"They say," put in Jack, "that there's plenty 

 of otter and beaver in Walnut Creek." 



"Yes," replied Tom, "we'll be apt to find some 

 of them, but they're nothing like as plenty as 

 they used to be. All those timbered creeks used 

 to have lots of beaver and otter in them, and 

 we'll find some of them, but our best hold will be 

 wolfskins. They are plentiest and easiest to get. 

 We'll take a few steel traps along to try for otter 

 and beaver. We'll take anything we can in the 

 way of fur." 



