CHAPTER III. 



In New Mexico Encounter with a Bear Cold Hospital- 

 ity The Retired Boston Merchant and his Mountain 

 Ranch An Able Missouri Liar The Mule that was 

 Not a Mule Seven Deer with Seven Shots. 



ONTEZUMA CAMP, on the Gallinas 

 River, in New Mexico, which had been 

 pre-empted for two summers in succession 

 by Professor Snow, was an ideal spot for 

 an insect-collector's camp. He made this his home 

 camp in the mountains and enjoyed life with his 

 family during the summer months in collecting 

 and arranging the various rare insects which abound 

 in that part of the country. Dyche was with him, 

 but the limited sphere of work was irksome to him, 

 and at last the desire to get among big game became 

 so strong that he started on a tramp up the moun- 

 tains with Walter Russ, a student who was on his 

 first collecting trip. Dyche wanted to hunt deer and 

 possibly bear, and Russ thought he could stand it as 

 long as Dyche could. 



A ranch eighteen miles from Montezuma Camp, 

 on the Gallinas River, was the objective point for 

 the first day, and Dyche determined to reach that 

 place by night if it was within the range of human 

 possibility. Under ordinary circumstances eighteen 

 miles in a day is not a long trip, but when it is over 



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