LOST IN A CEDAR SWAMP 145 



have been made into inkstands, the covers being made 

 of silver, while the inkwells are of glass. The skin 

 from the shanks of the hind legs has been made into 

 a pair of moose-shank shoes, a splendid protection for 

 the feet in snowy or slushy weather. The splints 

 which control the action of the dew claws have been 

 mounted into paper cutters. 



The hind quarters were shipped to Philadelphia and 

 put in cold storage. These furnished the principal dish 

 at one or more banquets the following winter. Some 

 of the meat of the fore quarters was smoked and the 

 balance salted down for the use of the two " good men 

 and true " who were my guides for the season. 



Albert, when he found that I was not at the Logan 

 Camps at the appointed time the day we parted from 

 each other at the lumber camp, walked the whole dis- 

 tance of five miles back again over the old tote-road. 

 When he failed to find me he fired several shots. One 

 of them I heard, and answered with a shot from the 

 first beaver meadow, but he heard it not. I also blew 

 my whistle loud and long, but without response. 



He then returned to the Logan Camps and there he 

 ate his lunch and mine also, and once more journeyed 

 across and back the five-mile distance, making some- 

 thing like a twenty-mile tramp to and from the two 

 lumber camps. 



Then it was becoming dark and he went down to 

 his canoe and paddled to the camp. 



