CHAPTER VII 

 A SOLITARY DISCIPLE OF BACCHUS 



"That quaffing and drinking will undo you." 



TWELFTH NIGHT. 



HENRY BRAITHWAITE'S home camp is situated on 

 the shore of the Big Southwest Miramichi Lake. It is 

 fifty-three miles from the railroad and forty-five miles 

 from a settlement. This camp is used largely as a dis- 

 tributing camp. Here are stored provisions for camps 

 that are scattered far and near on many lakes and 

 " dead-waters." 



Hanging from its walls are all manner of traps, for 

 " Uncle Henry " is a trapper as well as a guide and 

 owner of camps. There are three rooms or buildings 

 one used as a kitchen, dining-room and sleeping-room 

 for the guides, one as a storage-room, where three bear- 

 skins were hanging, and the third as a reading- writing- 

 and sleeping-room for the " sports." Two beds, each 

 capable of "sleeping" three men, a big stove, a big 

 bench or table, a wash-trough and another table com- 

 pleted the furnishing of the room. 



Here the only occupant when I arrived was a big, 

 morose and taciturn man, who kept upon the table an 

 open bottle of whiskey, of which he drank as often 

 as four times an hour. This man, whom I'll 



