CHAPTER XIX. 



Results of the Camp-Fires The Specimens Obtained. 



HE camp-fires are dead and the ashes cold. 

 Hundreds of whitened spots surrounded 

 by burned and blackened wood and 

 by bleaching bones may be found from 

 the sand-hills of No-Man's Land and the bleak 

 prairies of western Kansas to the marshes, bogs, 

 and fens of Manitoba; from the pine-covered ridges 

 at the head of the Pecos in New Mexico to the deep 

 forests on Kettle River in British Columbia, where 

 silence reigns supreme. Mountain and plain, swamp 

 and lava-bed have been called upon to contribute their 

 quota, and the work of the naturalist is now changed 

 from active field operations to the preparation of 

 specimens in the laboratory. 



It has not been my purpose to make a book of 

 thrilling adventures, full of exciting hunting-stories, 

 but rather to set forth clearly and truthfully those 

 incidents which impart a peculiar charm to the life 

 of hunters who go to the woods with the true 

 sportsman's instinct and look for game to add 

 something to the knowledge of the world. That the 

 naturalist had many more adventures than those re- 

 corded in these pages can readily be seen by a walk 

 through the storerooms of the Kansas University. 



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