preface 



R many years past, my friends and ac- 

 quaintances have urged me to write an 

 account of my trapping, fashing and hunting 

 experiences; in other words a more or less con- 

 nected story of my life and adventures. Some- 

 times I have half promised to do so, but as often 

 deferred action. One reason for this was that the 

 subject was distasteful to me. It seemed to me 

 that to accede to my friends' demands would 

 savour of boasting of the small things one might 

 have done, blowing one's own trumpet as it 

 were, a thing which I have always hated Lat- 

 terly, however, my own boys have insisted that I 

 should write this book, and for their sake and 

 their benefit, I now place this small volume be- 

 fore the public. Those who know me best will 

 be quite satisfied that I have no desire for notor- 

 iety or boasting, and for those who do not know 

 me, I suppose it matters very little what they 

 may think. They may be certain of one thing, 

 that all the statements contained in this book are 

 those of actual facts and without any exagger- 

 ation. I have no blood-curdling adventures to 

 relate, but just common, every-day facts, such 

 as enter into the ordinary life of a trapper. 

 Young men fond of life in the woods and its at- 



