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DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



SOME OF THE BEARS I HAVE NEVER MET 



tory, the old trapper will sometimes attribute 

 traits and physical characteristics to animals alto- 

 gether foreign to the creatures in question. 



"Tha' war bear sign pleanty around my claim 

 up in the Selkirk Mountains. I hed a right smart 

 of a hole dug in the rock, an found pleanty of 

 color, but it was all rock quartz; I hed no ore 

 crusher in my pack, fer I carried all my traps on 

 my back, so ye can judge quartz gold warn't much 

 use. 



THE FURTHER I DUG THE MADDER I GOT. 



u My pan warn't no use at all. I picked up a 

 piece of quartz with veins of the yellow stuff in 



