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fill. Two such men are most likely to get along 

 well together. 



Animals don't come to the camp door and 

 ask to be skinned. On the contrary trapping, 

 to do it right, is hard work and when the real 

 day's work of tramping through swamps and 

 over mountains setting traps is done there is 

 yet much work for the cold, wet and hungry men 

 to do at the camp; cutting and carrying the 

 night's fire wood, cooking their supper, drying 

 their clothes for the morrow, patching broken 

 moccasins and skinning and stretching pelts 

 they may have secured that day. With a good 

 pard these labors are, of course, divided, and 

 each cheerfully and silently takes his share. 



There is nothing I have enumerated but 

 what has to be done every night. A trapper 

 returns to his camp, and if he has to make a 

 new camp at the end of his trail so much more 

 and harder is the work, and the poor old trap- 

 per without a companion must, of necessity 

 perform all these duties alone, the completion 

 of which takes him far into the night. Brother 

 trappers, I know whereof I write. I have tried 

 both and I say for division of labor, for good 

 comradeship and for positive safety select and 

 join fortune with "A Good Pard." 



To illustrate, I give one of my own experi- 



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