226 FIFTY YEARS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER. 



Always endeaver to carry out the plans as near as possible the 

 way they were planned before leaving camp in the morning. Of 

 all things, do not accept of a man who is lazy or void of manly 

 principles as a partner, for sooner or later you will drop him. 

 Then it will make no difference how much you have done for him 

 or how much you have befriended him in times past, he will do 

 you all the dirt he is capable of doing. 



If you want to know all about a man, go camping with him. 

 Probably you think you know him already, but if you have never 

 camped on the trail with him, you do not. It may be that he 

 is your near neighbor or he may have been a partner in business, 

 but if you have not camped with him, you have yet to learn him. 

 It is not a hard job to believe a man a good fellow when at home, 

 but when you have camped with him on the trail, then you will 

 know him. When your companion wishes to annoy any game, 

 which you may find in your, traps for the mere purpose of hear- 

 ing the animal moan with pain; will shoot birds and animals 

 just for the purpose of killing if you have a team with you, and 

 your companion will ride up the steep hills where other men 

 would walk; will neglect his beasts of burden in any way, this man 

 you should never choose as your camping or trapping partner. 

 But when you find one who will never wantonly torture a dumb 

 animal and is kind to his beasts of burden, always giving it all the 

 advantages and kind treatment possible, this man you needn't fear 

 to accept as a trapping partner for in this man you will find "a friend 

 indeed when in need." 



