CHAPTER: Vii: To 
Nis. 
ATE in the autumn of 1894, in company with T. 
R. Peterson, we left McLean’s capital for en} 
outing on Douglass River. Mr. Peterson seemed about} 
entering a training course on his predestined later ca- 
reer as the only volunteer from his adopted county in} 
the Spainish-American war,that made the Cubans a free 
people and engrafted the Asiatic Maley to the ho- 
mogeneous mass of mankind now known to the world) 
as the Great Yankee Nation. 
In his camp fire talk «‘Tom,’’ regretted that extreme} 
youth prevented him from seeing military service in the 
war between the States, and an unforseen accident 
barred him from taking a hand in the ghost dance trou- 
bles and Sioux uprising of 1890, Although in the 
civil war business he contented himself somewhat in 
his being the son of a veteran anda further consolation 
in the old biblical proverb «‘that all things comes to him 
who waites.’’ 
In our trip we had in view a hunt after the wolves 
and coyotes around Burton’s sheep ranch and to catch 
a pair of young beavers for the Purpose of experimen- 
tal domestication. In our first Camp near the upper 
beaver dams of the Douglass, we set two experimental 
traps on the breasts—first taking off one Spring from 
