go FIFTY YEARS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER. 



lost no time in putting him out of his trouble. We skinned the 

 fore parts and hung them up in a sapling to use for bait for fox 

 and marten and took the saddles to camp, skinned them out and 

 stretched the skin on the shanty. Later we shipped the saddles to 

 market. 



The next day we looked at the balance of the bear traps but 

 found them undisturbed but we concluded to leave them set a 

 few days longer. On going the rounds of the smaller traps, we 

 got a fox or two also a marten or two, but as I remember it, 

 we got no mink or otter at this time. We now had the traps all 

 looked after, so we put in the time hunting deer as the time for 

 deer hunting was soon to close. The weather had turned and 

 frozen so that it had formed a sharp crust and we were compelled 

 to use the driving method of hunting. One of us would stand on 

 the runways, in the beds of basins and in low places on the 

 ridges while the other would follow the trail and drive the deer 

 through to the hunter. I wish to say right here, that I do not 

 like this way of hunting deer but little better than I do of hound- 

 ing and running deer with dogs. The dog is all right but I want 

 no dogging of deer for me. 



We would get a deer nearly every day. It was now the first 

 of January and time to get our venison to camp or out to the 

 road where we could pick them up on the way out to Kane. After 

 we had gathered up the venison and had gone the rounds of the 

 traps that had not been tended while hunting, we went to Kane. 

 Here we engaged a team to come in after the venison and bear 

 and bring in a grub stake to last us until the middle of March 

 when we would break camp and go home. We both went back 

 to Kane with the team to assist in getting over some of the rough 

 places and see that our venison and bear meat was tagged and 

 shipped all right. Then we came back to camp to put our entire 

 time in tending to the traps which we did to good advantage. 

 We had found other good warm springs while hunting, and some 

 that we thought were lasting springs, had gone dry or had frozen 

 up, so we shifted a good many of the traps to the other springs. 



Then we took it a little easier only going the rounds of the 

 traps as we considered it necessary and on such days as the 



