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days afterwards, and it burnt over a large sec- 

 tion of good and useful timber. 



We met a man who had been a resident 

 guide on the Island of Vancouver. To us he 

 featured the generally wet condition of the 

 woods there, the slimy bark on the fallen 

 trees and the torrential rains that afflict 

 that interesting island. He was guiding a 

 timber prospector through the dense woods 

 when they came to a deep canyon over which 

 a log had fallen. The prospector was a stout 

 man and one who liked to have his own way. 

 The guide went down to the bed of the creek, 

 and advised the prospector to do the same, for 

 it was a dangerous proceeding to walk over a 

 wet log, as his foot was liable to slip. How- 

 ever, the man persisted. His foot did slip, 

 and so did the man, and the fall broke three of 

 his ribs. He was picked up and helped away 

 to the city of Vancouver as fast as they could 



go- 

 There he found a letter of considerable im- 

 portance which caused him at once to board a 

 train for New York, without waiting to have 

 any surgical attention paid to his injuries. 

 When he reached New York he had to be 

 taken to a hospital, where he died in two days. 

 Being asked what it was that killed the man, 



