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ting logs for the fire we sat down where we were 

 and waited until he had finished chopping before 

 coming up to congratulate him on the steady swing 

 of his ax. At four o'clock we packed up our outfit 

 and, heading into the storm, left our brush camp 

 behind and started for the home camp on the St. 

 Clair River, whither we arrived some time after 

 dark, to find all the hunters and guides in camp, 

 where we had a big talk fest. 



The day we had started for the Harris River 

 moose country, Wolcott, Cutting, and Bettle, with 

 Dixon and Baker, had gone back up the St. Clair to 

 our last willow patch camp in order to hunt sheep. 

 Wolcott succeeded in getting a head with fifteen inch 

 circumference at base of horn, but the horns some- 

 what broomed and imperfect at the points. Wol- 

 cott had also gone over to where Hoyt had killed a 

 sheep the day we climbed the snow slopes, and when 

 within seventy-five yards had found a nice grizzly 

 feeding upon the sheep carcass. The bear vanished 

 over a ridge, however, before Wolcott could shoot, 

 so the hunter ran after the bear and by excellent 

 shooting killed him at a range of four hundred 

 yards. 



Bettle reported a rather interesting sheep hunt 

 with Dixon. Having located seven rams on a 

 mountain slope, Bettle decided to climb above them, 

 which he accomplished after much effort as the snow 

 was deep and the ascent steep. When he was 



