112 FIFTY YEARS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER. 



Mr. Howard stayed with me for about two weeks and we had 

 other bear hunts and killed two other bear and we did it almost 

 without knowing that there was a bear within ten miles of us. We 

 also got five or six deer during Mr. Howard's stay with me. Deer 

 were as plentiful in those days as rabbits. Comrades, look over the 

 accompanying picture and note the difference at the camp of a 

 trapper from what you can imagine it was about one's hunting 

 camp at the time we write of. 



