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thickets for a mile or so, sometimes crawling on our hands 

 and knees, and sometimes climbing over fallen trees. By 

 and by onr little creek grew broader, and as we began to 

 leave the swamp, it spread into a large pond vritli a dam 

 about thirty rods long. On one side the land was rather 

 low, on the other side a steep bluff, rising directly from 

 the water to the height of about eighty feet. The bluff 

 was covered with a growth of small poplar and birch. 

 The beaver had made roads or slides from the very top to 

 the bottom, some smooth and neat. They cut their wood 

 on the very top of the bluff, and slid it down into the 

 pond. 



Now here was a chance to catch a beaver, but I lacked 

 just such a little book as this to tell me how to do it. It 

 was near night, and we cut a hole in the dam, and set one 

 trap there and another at a feeding ]Dlace ; then we went 

 over behind the hill to camp for the night. It was not 

 very far away, the hill being a narrow one. Here we 

 struck a fire and prepared our supper of broiled pork and 

 bread, and got ready for a night's rest. But the scent of 

 the broiled pork attracted the attention of a pack of gray 

 wolves of the bigger sort, and when we had got fairly 

 down and asleep, with our guns under our heads, the ' 

 whole pack set up a howl vrhich made us dream of wolves 

 until I awoke, whispering to my companion ; this caused 

 him to start up and speak aloud. One old she-wolf, which 

 had come up within a few feet of us, commenced to bark 

 outright. Just then my old gun poured out a stream of 



