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CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



A bear cub seven months old, a wolf, or a puma, can 

 endure to travel alone, and take chances of being watered 

 and fed by kind-hearted express messengers. In all our 

 seven years of animal-gathering by express, we have not 

 lost an important live animal in transit through the 

 neglect of express messengers. True, our printed ship- 

 ping labels loudly appeal for " plenty of air," " Do not 

 let them die of thirst! " and " Feed moderately." At St. 

 Paul we have a half-way house, where an agent attends 

 to the wants of all animals coming to us through his 

 express company. 



Bear cubs are tough, and can travel alone ; but moun- 

 tain goat babies cannot. They must be cared for three 

 times a day, as regularly as it is possible for an able- 

 bodied courier to break into the express car where they 

 travel. It is a serious undertaking. 



The five little goats were shipped in two light and 

 roomy crates, in which they could turn about very freely. 

 On the top of each crate was a hinged trap-door, which 

 fastened with a padlock. The cracks of the crates were 

 so narrow that no goat could thrust a leg through and 

 have it broken off. I had four bags of freshly-cut clover, 

 a bag of crushed oats and bran, and two watering pans. 

 The food supply was furnished by White, and was sup- 

 posed to be in accordance with what the goats had pre- 

 viously been fed upon. 



They liked the clover, but the bran and oats they 

 scorned to touch, save with their feet. Whenever I 

 offered a panful of the ground feed they would smell 

 of it, taste it once, and then, biff I a stocky black hoof 



