2o8 Hunting Big Game 



possible to get rest with the noise which was 

 especially bad on the stairs just outside the 

 nimrod's room. Ten o'clock, 12 o'clock, came, 

 and still no sleep. The nimrod was lying 

 awake all this time and he began to grow un- 

 easy as the noise on the stairs continued. It 

 seemed as if the disturbers would never go. 

 At 1 o'clock the lights in the hall went out, 

 but the noise still continued; 2 o'clock, still 

 some one in the hall. Finally the nimrod lost 

 patience and opening the door hurriedly struck 

 a match, then there was the sound of a hurried 

 departure, and after that there was quiet. 



The following day we bid good-bye to 

 Kippewa. 



