Newfoundland 
game for me, what care I how fair he be!” But 
I knew better! Like many another man before 
me, and like many more to come, I had experienced 
a dose of “ buck-fever,” an unenviable state of 
the nerves, needing a good shock ere the lesson 
is learnt. 
It was all the more unfortunate, too, as we 
had no fresh meat in camp—nothing but bacon. 
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