liim. "Besides," he said, "liow Uk- dt-vil do ycm expect 

 to sliDol bears t'roni tlie top of a snow slied tlner (|uarters 

 of a niik' away ^" 



It look lots of oily words to smooth out the ])erry 

 man's wa\-cs of intlignation. After warning; Inink-r nnm 

 ber one that if 1r- vahied llie intei;ril\- of liis own liide he 

 had better not try that sort of fun again, Iml keej) his 

 bullets in their ])ouch, where they evidentl\- l)elono;ed, 

 Ik- fuiall}- agreed to an armistice and a chink ul whisky. 



Number two had in the meantime followed the bear 

 away down the river Itut lost the trail and dejectedly 

 returnetl, adding his opinion to that of the l)c-rr\- busli 

 man: "The idea of a fellow trying to shoot a bear from 

 the top of a snow shed and across a whole county I ' ' 



And now we come to Lake Okanagan to tr\ our 

 guns on the wild geese and ducks. 



By tlie way, like tlie immortal Mrs. O'Brien, who, 

 when sIr- had ac(|uir(.-d wealth and ])osition in societ\- in- 

 sisted upon calling herself Mrs. (j'lh'ion, with the acct-nt 

 on the last syllable. Lake Okanagan is not Okanagan at all, 

 but is pronounced Okanawgan, accent (M1 the third s\lla- 

 ble. It is named after a tribe of Indians a biancli ol the 

 Chinook race). It is about eiglity miles long and from 

 two to twelve miles in breadth, well hlled with silver 

 trout, salmon trout, ihub and lake trout. The growing 

 town of \'eruon, with a present jjopuhuion of about lour 

 hundred, is five miles from it. The lake is bordered by 

 a remarkabl\- fine ]iiece of ranching and agricultural 

 countrx-. ami on account of its numifold attractions — the 

 depth and coldness of its waters, the Ixnuity of the 



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