THE RAMBLE. 
E usually prefer to get away to the woods about the 
first or second week in September. This gives us 
plenty of time before the shooting and trapping should 
commence, to straighten out the camps, provide sufficient 
hard wood for the whole campaign, repair and regulate our 
line of wooden and steel traps, and occasionally leaving along 
the line many a choice bite for the furry tribe to eat, thereby 
getting them interested and wonted to the path, but not 
baiting, or setting a trap, until the proper time arrives, when 
the fur has become prime, or very nearly so. 
In September and October, and often part of November 
the forest is in all its glory, and the days average very fine. 
November and December, with the frequent light falls of snow, 
bring their many advantages also, and by this time, the fine 
appetite, exercise. and the pure bracing air of the forest has 
nicely fitted one to meet the coming colder days. For as you 
walk away over the snow, with springy step, upon the fresh 
tracks of the game, feeling so glorious in your renewed life 
from this free and happy roaming of the woods, you laugh 
at the cold, being animated by the best of spirits, full of life 
