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we will go to camp, so we started. We were about three miles from 

 camp, but Orlando could only go a few steps when he would be 

 obliged to rest. He soon became so weak that I could only get him 

 along by partly carrying him. He was several years younger than I, 

 but he was somewhat heavier, so he was rather more of a load 

 than I could well manage. 



I kept tugging away with him, and about 9 o'clock in the evening 

 I got him to camp, where I fixed him as comfortable as I could, 

 then I began a race of about eleven miles to Orlando's father's 

 house. The distance was about one-half of the way through the 

 woods and it took me until 12 o'clock to make it, but we soon had 

 a .team hitched to the wagon and were on the way back to the 

 camp where we arrived about 3. o'clock in the morning. We 

 could only get within about one and a fourth miles of the camp 

 with a wagon, so we had to leave it there and go on with only the 

 horses. When we got to the camp we found Orlando no better, 

 sc we got him on to one of the horses and by steadying him the 

 best we could, managed to work our way back home. We arrived 

 there about 8 o'clock in the morning- and found a doctor already 

 waiting. 



To make a long story short, it is sufficient to say that Pard had 

 a long run of typhoid fever, and if he had been in the woods alone 

 he would have surely died. I could relate other incidents where 

 a pard did come in very acceptable. 



As it is a necessity to have a partner, it is also necessary to 

 have a good one, for the successful trapper has no idler's job on his 

 hands. You should always have a partner who is able to read 

 and write and should have a pencil and paper in your pocket, for 

 it often happens that you wish to leave a message at a certain* 

 place where Pard and you expect to meet on the trap line. Then 

 each one takes a different line of traps, and circumstances has 

 happened since you left camp in the morning that it changes the 

 entire program. It also often happens that you get into camp at 

 a different time than what you expected and wish to go out again 

 and take up another line of traps, and you should try to keep one 

 another informed as to about what section you are working in. 

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