200 CAMP FIRE REMINISCENCES 
only animals we saw were chipmunks (7amias 
striatos) ; it was most amusing to watch the beauti- 
ful squirrel-like little things coming up and inspect- 
ingus. Wearrived in camp, having had a most ex- 
hausting and fruitless day. W. had spent the 
time around camp, and C. did not return until 
late. He had seen a number of spike bulls and 
hinds, but nothing with decent horns. As none of 
us had killed anything, we were obliged to dine off 
‘the usual fried bacon. We had other food, but 
three men with licenses to shoot do not generally 
bring fresh meat with them into the best game 
country in America. We growled a good deal that 
night and decided that fresh meat must be pro- 
cured the next day. Fayler arranged to take C. 
to a new place, while Jackson was to go with 
me up a valley parallel with where C. had been 
this day and W. would scour the neighbourhood 
of the camp for grouse. Long before dawn we 
were up; the night had been bitterly cold and all 
water was frozen hard. My six-by-six tent was 
like an ice box and I envied the men in the big tent 
with the stove. Just beside our tents we had a 
camp fire composed of whole trees. As the hill- 
side was covered with down timber, there was not 
the least difficulty in getting wood, so four or five 
trees were piled upon each other and a fire kindled 
against them. In a few minutes they were burn- 
ing, but as we were on the weather side, the bitter 
wind almost froze us, in spite of our large bonfire. 
After breakfast we started, and in a couple of 
