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costed us as we proceeded to unhitch the 

 horses. She had with her a fierce Indian dog, 

 and the wolf-dog that had followed us all of 

 the trip and this Indian dog could not agree. 

 She was asked in the Indian tongue by one 

 of our men to go into her cabin and take her 

 dog with her. This stirred up her anger, and 

 she gave us such an outburst of talk as none 

 of us had ever before heard. We had the car- 

 cases of three young rams on the wagon and 

 the following morning the largest of the three 

 was found on the ground with nearly half of 

 it eaten. It was at first thought that the In- 

 dian dog had climbed upon the wagon and 

 pulled the carcase off, but I imagine the old 

 hag had done the climbing and the dragging, 

 and after helping herself first, had then left 

 the dog to get his share. 



In the year 1892 I was with a trans-conti- 

 nental hunting party. We had a car built on 

 the lines of a Pullman sleeper, in which we 

 ate and slept. We stopped at different places 

 where the hunting was good, and our car 

 would be switched on to a siding. We spent 

 a week in a reservation of the Cree tribe of 

 Indians away out in the flat prairies of Al- 

 berta Territory. We had been successful 

 with our hunt. We had a large number of 



