THE WOLF HUNTERS 



Our tent was fast becoming filled with bales of 

 wolfskins, and one day I asked: 



"Tom, what are we going to do for some place 

 to store our wolfskins? Our tent is nearly full, 

 and we are still taking them, and the season isn't 

 half through." 



"I've been thinking about that, too," replied 

 the old man, "and I guess I'll make another trip 

 over to the fort to-morrow to get them buffalo calf- 

 skins for my overcoat, an' while I'm over there I'll 

 try to get the use of an empty room there among 

 the old dobes where we can store 'em; an* we can 

 take a wagon-load over from time to time as the 

 tent gets too full." 



Next day he went to the fort, returning on the 

 following evening, with a lot of Indian-dressed 

 buffalo calfskins for his overcoat, and reported 

 that he had engaged an unused room of Weissel- 

 baum wherein to store our baled skins. 



Tom soon had a very serviceable overcoat made 

 from the calfskins far better than the coyote 

 coats Jack and I had made us lining it with a 

 red blanket and covering the collar and cuffs with 

 muskrat skins, which have a beautiful fur, some- 

 what similar to the beaver in color but not so 

 heavy. 



As yet we had had but one light fall of snow 

 nothing like a storm and it had soon passed off, 

 the weather continuing fair but quite cold of 

 nights and mornings. 



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