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towards the south is his almost invaria- 

 ble companion and beast of burden ; the 

 tangled forests of the northern ranges 

 make it necessary for him to trust only 

 to his own power as a pack-bearer, and 

 he carries merely what he takes on his 

 own shoulders. 



The old fellow in question had been 

 out for a month before the snow was all 

 gone, and his dog, a large and rather 

 vicious hound, to which he was greatly 

 attached, accompanied him. When his 

 food gave out he was working his way 

 back towards Flathead Lake, and struck 

 a stream, on which he found an old 

 dug - out canoe, deserted the previous 

 fall by some other prospector or pros- 

 pectors. Into this he got, with his 

 traps and his dog, and started down- 

 stream. 



On the morning of the second day, 

 while rounding a point of land, he sud- 



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