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we tied on behind a large load of ceder splits, on the toboggan, 
started for the scene of action a half mile distant from our 
camp. Arriving, 
a cheerful day of interesting work. The situation showed 
we reviewed the position and started in for 
four lumber roads coming into one, and that the main road 
to the landing on the stream. This we considered one of the 
best stands for the game, as the deer and caribou both love to 
wander up and down the old woods roads, feeding upon the 
young sprouts from the old cuttings, besides it being the 
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better travelling which they will often take advantage of. 
Choosing a central spot where suitable trees were growing, to 
support our structure, also to give a good view of the roads, 
we commence our engineering. 
Cutting two straight spruce poles over twenty feet long, we 
bore them with our one and a quarter inch augur, put into 
them. twenty good rounds, and have what we first need, a 
twenty foot ladder. This is raised up beside a large yellow 
birch, four feet from a thrifty spruce, which two trees hold 
up the wide end. Ten feet away stands another nice spruce, 
and these are all bored into, stout pins driven in, and this 
gives us a good rest for our floor timbers. Tough little straight 
spruce poles resting upon these are wired solid, and then comes 
our flooring of the cedar splits; next, foot rails, hand rails, or 
side railings, to steady one while walking along, also capital to 
rest a rifle when making a fine. steady shot. In a similar 
manner we ran the poles from the two trees to the one, giving 
a good pitch for the roofing, which was sail cloth, painted to 
match the tree bodies. Then sawing off the single spruce 
above the roof we had a steady and solid platform, that would 
bear up near a ton’s weight ; a couple of boxes for seats, each 
a buffalo robe and our overcoats, which kept us comfortable in 
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