Newfoundland 



game for me, what care I how fair he be ! " But 

 I knew better ! Like many another man before 

 me, and like many more to come, I had experienced 

 a dose of " buck-fever," an unenviable state of 

 the nerves, needing a good shock ere the lesson 

 is learnt. 



It was all the more unfortunate, too, as we 

 had no fresh meat in camp nothing but bacon. 



