AT GORDON’S CAMP 21 
had they needed the services of a doctor, it would 
at times have been extremely difficult to get one. 
Her heart was brave as well as kind. 
One day in January, when a crew of swampers 
were clearing away the timber and brush near the 
camp to make a new road, they began to have 
trouble with their horses. The animals acted 
strangely every time they approached a certain 
place just at the foot of a small ridge. Whenever 
the horses reached this spot, they reared and 
plunged and snorted with fright, and it was only 
by force and much persuasion that the men could 
keep them in the open way. 
That evening, back at camp, the men told of the 
unusual behavior of the horses. Weldon, the cook, 
who was something of a hunter, suggested that 
there must have been a bear somewhere about, for 
a horse always acts in this way when in the vicin- 
ity of one of these animals. 
The idea was ridiculed, for everyone knew that 
no bears would be roaming around at that time of 
the year. But the cook kept his own counsel, and 
next day he went out to the ridge to investigate. 
In a short time he made a discovery. At the foot 
of a huge dead pine tree he noticed a small hole in 
the snow, rimmed with ice and frost. He knew 
pretty well what had made it, and with his snow- 
shoes he began to dig. 
When he reached the ground, he found a large 
