300 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



could, and, leaving the carcasses where they lay, the 

 search for the horses was resumed, and they were 

 finally found fourteen miles down the river. By the 

 time they were brought back, the bear hides picked up 

 and all had arrived at the cabin the day was far ad- 

 vanced. A hasty meal was eaten, the horses were 

 loaded and late in the afternoon they started on their 

 mountain trip. 



At the two small lakes plenty of tracks of moose 

 were seen, but no moose. The mountain was climbed 

 with considerable difficulty and not a little privation. 

 A night was spent above the timber line, where the 

 cold was very severe and the snow was deep and soft, 

 and where they couldn't get any water to drink or in 

 which to boil their rice. When daylight once more 

 greeted them they were hungry and cold, and, being 

 without food, the doctor, like Falstaff indeed might 

 have said : " My belly's as cold as if I had swallowed 

 snowballs for pills." 



Kibbee had dinned the doctor's ears with stories of 

 the multitudes of whistling marmots which they would 

 find upon the mountain, and you know the skins of 

 these interesting animals make a fur that is much in 

 request by fair dames for automobile coats or wraps. 

 Alack-a-day, another disappointment, for the whistling 

 marmots were all every one of them holed up for 

 the winter, and the hunters couldn't possibly wait until 

 spring should come. 



