ELK HUNT IN WYOMING 



cold which I wanted to prescribe for. He 

 replied that it had come on without anything 

 and it would go off without anything. After 

 some persuasion he consented to take a good 

 dose of quinine and a hot drink before retir- 

 ing. The next morning the cold had about 

 disappeared, but when Imo went out to 

 round up the horses he had great difficulty 

 in hearing the bell on account of the quinine 

 buzzing in his ear, which confirmed his bad 

 opinion of medicine. 



After I had tired of loafing I hunted with 

 the dogs, tracking cougars, bobcats and lynx. 

 Occasionally I would take a shot at a coyote 

 to pay it back for some of the unearthly 

 serenades we had been treated to at night. 

 One day, while following the track of a lynx, 

 Herdick came across a No. 5 bear trap. He 

 discovered it by noticing some fresh elk meat 

 near it. The trap was carefully concealed, 

 and had he been an inexperienced hunter or 

 perhaps walking along there at night he 

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