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&ides several men to hunt the dogs. Such dogs as 

 these don't stay with me, as I consider them a 

 nuisance, especially for city sportsmen, who are 

 so busy during the whole year that they can only 

 take a few weeks holiday every year, they require 

 a strain of hounds on v>hich they can depend 

 every day of their hunt. I v^^ant a dog to be a 

 flyer and to back track after every chase and to 

 find me in the bush and not make for camp after 

 hi-s chase or wait at the shore until some ^Mohnny 

 Sneakum" comes along with his canoe and says, 

 ''Get in Jack/' and that Jack is only too glad 

 to jump in and tlie next thing is that you don't 

 see Jack for the balance of the season, but you 

 will learn later on that Jack has been half 

 starved that it will cost you $5.00 to |10.00 for 

 the board if you desire to get Jack. 



I will say here that I owe my life to two of 

 my hounds. I was lost once in the woods in a 

 blinding snow storm. This was in Western On- 

 tario amongst a range of sappy pine hills. I was 

 about five miles from camp. In the morning 

 when I left the weather Avas very fine but it 

 soon started to snow and the storm lasted until 

 about f) P. M. I was soaking wet and I had left 

 my compass at camp, my matches were all wet 

 and I slept in the bush. At 10 A. M. I had 

 started my two hounds and about 11 A. M. they 

 came back to me. It was just commencing to 



