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agreed, but insisted on camping some distance from 
the house, as we wished to keep away from civilisa- 
tion. 
Buck’s surly friend from Weiser acted as cook, 
but he felt that he was being imposed upon when 
we ordered him to prepare dinner in the open when 
there was a hotel at hand, so we disrated him and 
promoted the cheerful little fellow we had picked 
up in Council. 
This was our first night by a camp fire, and the 
weather, being perfectly fine, we enjoyed it very 
much. fF, and H., being Harvard men, were rem- 
iniscent, and their battles on the football grounds 
were fought over again. 
Shortly after daylight on September 21, we were 
up. The night had been cold and thin ice fringed 
the creek in which we performed our ablutions. 
The flapjacks being a success, breakfast was satis- — 
factory, and by eight, having everything ready, we 
. started. The grade was heavy for the first mile, 
but after that it was easy, the road, which was good, 
keeping close to a small stream. 
The two men from Council now joined us with 
extra horses, making seventeen in all, so we were 
prepared to pack out a good many heads. Buck 
took me some distance from the road to a place 
where deer were usually found, but there were 
none there, and as very few tracks were to be seen, 
we soon returned to our party. 
The country through which we were passing was 
really pretty, rather heavy pine woods on the right 
and meadows with clumps of timber on the left. I 
