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to remove the top or cover occasionally and turn the meat, and 

 say, boys, next June when you are out camping just kill a small 

 deer and prepare the meat as described. Is it good? I guess yes. 



Having our work completed at the camp, the next morning 

 after we had got the horses fed and the venison prepared, we drove 

 back onto Baleys Run. Here we camped near the mouth of the 

 run, and that night we set fifty eel hooks, some in the run and 

 some in the main Sinnamahoning. I think that we caught twenty- 

 two eels and some trout. As we were now in a section where 

 there were some barrens, which contained good huckleberry picking, 

 we put in the next day picking berries until near night, and drove 

 home at night, a distance of about twenty miles. All the time 

 whjle picking berries, setting eel hooks and trout fishing, of which 

 we did enough to supply our needs, we kept a close watch for 

 signs of animals that we intended to take in later on. 



We saw signs of mink, coon and where an otter had been at 

 play on a steep bank of the run. We saw signs of bear in several 

 places where they had torn old logs to pieces in search of grub and 

 ants. We saw at one place where a bear had dug out a woodchuck, 

 and I should judge by the amount of digging he had done that he 

 earned his chuck. We saw considerable signs of bear in the 

 huckleberries, and of them will have more to say later on. 

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About October first, Bill and your humble servant again 

 started for camp, which we found all right. From all appearances 

 it had been occupied for several days by someone, probably berry 

 pickers, and as usual they had burned up what wood we had cut. 

 Bill made a little kick, and said they were welcome to the camp, 

 but he would be "dog-on" pleased if they would cut what wood 

 they burned. Our first week in camp was spent in cutting a 

 good supply of wood and mudding the shack a little in places 

 where we failed to do good work the first time. 



Being located well up at the head of the streams, it made it 



necessary for us to do- a good deal of traveling to get from one 



stream to another where the water was of sufficient size to afford 



good trapping ground. Steel traps being none too plenty with us 



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