Hunting the Grizzly 



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When looking the traps along the stream 

 which marked the trapper's present operations, 

 we took a canoe, paddling quietly over the 

 smooth surface of the water, w^hich, in its wind- 

 ings between the cottonwood trees furnished 

 a series of beautiful reflections. 



His Favorite Position. 



Occasionally the trapper would call my at- 

 tention to signs of the wild, plain enough to 

 the son of the forest but unnoticed by one 

 inexperienced; expressing himself thus as we 

 paddled along, and almost as if half to him- 



