EASE 189 



procedure of every pack drive, followed by 

 a comfortable nap in the saddle. Horses often 

 doze at a walk, even, I suspect, at the trot, and 

 a nap for man and horse adds a great deal to 

 the endurance of both. 



As to going afoot, it takes a very steep down 

 hill track to enforce such a thing upon me. 

 Rumour says that we will walk half a mile to 

 get a pony from pasture in order to ride a 

 hundred yards on an errand. But to be afoot 

 is for the range horseman the last depth of 

 calamity and degradation. 



My last experience of this was a traverse of 

 the Canadian Rockies, when my partner and I 

 rode along the bed and bars of a river until we 

 were washed away. After that we took to the 

 bush, a wonderful labyrinth of deadfall, beaver 

 swamp and snowslides, which we managed to 

 climb through by following the tracks of some 

 wapiti. We had to work about twenty hours 

 a day, and the four days reduced our clothes 

 and boots to rags, but our luck was better than 

 that of another party of four men who tried 

 the same pass that season and were not heard 

 of afterwards. I will not tempt young travel- 

 lers by giving them the name of that pass. 



Guidance. While the range man never 

 walks, but makes the saddle his home, and 



