CONTENTS. xi 



CHAPTEE XIV. 



PAGE 

 The Scenery Our Winter Quarters A Lean-to The Country White 



Tails Black Tails Spruce Deer Ashlata, or Bighorn Antelopes 

 Bears Wolves Foxes Pumas Lynx and other Game The 

 Snow-storm An empty Larder . 127 



CHAPTEE XV. 



A Drove of Turkeys A fat Buck Coming to grief Cold Work The 

 Turkeys again Skyed The flowing Bowl The big Buck "gone 

 for" Our Bill of Fare complete How it all happened Our 

 Christmas Dinner 136 



CHAPTEE XVI. 



The Beaver Trappers and Ex- trappers Captain John Connor Beaver- 

 houses : their Construction and Position Breeding in-and-in 

 Food Aquatic Romps Attempt to "outsmart" a Beaver Beaver- 

 dams : how built Traps Beaver Medicine : its Manipulation 

 The " Setting Ground " Beaver Trapping How he is Caught 

 Disappointment The Pursuit of the Beaver as a Sport Frost . 147 



CHAPTEE XVII. 



A white World The Animals gone A Gale Snowed-up A Chance 

 of Starvation Disagreeable Alternatives The Party determines to 

 divide A Substitute for Starvation Adieu Nip and Tug "strike 

 a Lead "Wild Cat as FoodA Fairy Godmother Go after her 

 with a Rifle Joe on the Watch Death of the Doe The missing 

 Stock come into View 166 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



Gray Mountain Wolves The Traps again Caught A Trap missing 

 On a Wolf-trail Sagacious rather ! A Jump for Life Fagged-out 

 An unearthly Scene A Night's Rest Nip and Tug take the 

 Track The Wolf before us The Fight A Pause Death of the 

 Wolf Joe and the Ashlata A happy Return . . . .177 



CHAPTEE XIX. 



The Start Unsatisfactory Travelling The Camping Ground A 

 wakeful Night Fagged-out and Short Commons The Mosca 

 Pass in Sight An Ocean of Air The Ga^ Danger A cold 

 Camp -The Fuel lost 195 



