HUNTING AND TRAPPING IN CAMERON COUNTY. 



that was in the head of a hollow. As soon as I came to the brow 

 of the ridge and looked down into the basin I saw four 'deer feed- 

 ing and working towards me. The wind was blowing directly from 

 the deer towards me, so I stood quiet and in a few minutes the 

 deer fed up within easy ran^e. I pulled the gun onto an old doe 

 in the lead, and broke her down almost in her tracks. The three 

 remaining deer made a few jumps in my direction and stopped and 

 looked back, which gave me a good shot at a yearling buck, which 

 also went down in my sight. The other two deer ran close by me 

 and over the ridge into the green timber. I had hardly cut the 

 deers' throats when Bill called out, "This is a dog-on pretty trick 

 that you have played me." 



Bill had been following these deer all day and had followed 

 to the "burn-down" and had seen the deer on the opposite hill, but 

 too far away to shoot. As the wind was against him he had 

 dropped down the hollow a ways, crossed and worked up around 

 on the opposite side to get the wind in his favor, and was just 

 about ready to fire on the deer when I began shooting. After Bill 

 had explained how he had been working the deer all day and then 

 have me slip in just as he had the game bagged and swipe it, 

 Bill claimed was dog-on mean. I cautioned Bill to hold his temper 

 and I would call it even on the bear he swiped from me, and 

 told him I was pleased to have him on hand to help hang up the 

 deer. 



We had worked along now up to about the middle of December 

 with the various ups and downs that one on the trap line and trail 

 always meet with. We had killed twelve or fourteen deer, and I 

 think we had caught six bears and had made a fair catch of fox, 

 mink, marten and some other furs. There had not been much snow 

 up to this time, when a fall of 12 or 14 inches came all in one night. 

 Bears had not denned up to this time, but we were quite sure that 

 bruin would now go into winter quarters. We concluded to gather 

 up the bear traps and all the small traps that were not setting in 

 springs that did not freeze, or those setting in other likely places 

 to make a catch. In nearly the last bear trap that we went to get, 

 we found a bear, and when we began to skin it we found that it 

 had lost two tees on one forefoot. We concluded that it was the 



