Memories of a Bear Hunter 



head of the track, sleeping in boarding cars and 

 enjoying it all. 



The hotel which I occupied was a small con- 

 struction of loose boards, and the change from 

 sleeping in a warm tent to these quarters in a barn 

 of a hotel, did not agree with me. I caught cold, 

 and on November 2 1 became seriously sick. When 

 my friends learned of it, they at once sent me one of 

 the best of surgeons, Dr. Parker, who pronounced 

 the disease pneumonia in one lung, and two nurses 

 were provided. In a week the other lung became 

 involved. The next morning after this new com- 

 plication, appeared friend Glough with the doctor 

 and four stout men with a stretcher, and told me 

 that it was imperative that I should have more 

 comfortable quarters. I was put on the stretcher, 

 carried through the streets for several hundred 

 yards and deposited on a very comfortable bed in 

 a convenient, well furnished room in a building 

 constructed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. 

 for the use of its Engineer Corps. The room was 

 Mr. Glough's own room, which he had given up 

 to me. 



For twenty-six days I was sick with this dread 

 disease, and for a week my fate hung in the 

 balance. At last, however, the kindness and atten- 

 tion of Colonel Glough, Dr. Parker and Mrs. 



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