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THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



BUGLE AND TRAILER IN A BATTLE ROYAL 



By John B. Griffin, Kirby, Oregon 



I PROMISED in my last story to tell you about a hunt and bear fight 

 in which Old Bugle — Fred Barneburg's thoroughbred hound — had a 

 hand and helped to save Trailer when he was in the- closest place 

 of his life. 



Fred Barneburg was one of the good old pioneers of the Rogue 

 River Valley and was one of the first settlers and secured valuable 

 land near Bear Creek. In those days he and Captain John S. Miller used 

 to kill deer where Medford now stands. Fred was known far and wide 

 and loved to hunt better than anybody, and was a great hand to take 

 care of meat after he had killed it. I used to hunt a great deal with 

 Fred and Dave Miller and it kept me pretty busy sometimes listening 

 to them both talking at the same time, telling how they came to miss an 

 old buck or managed to bag him. 



Fred was several years older than I and used to tell around the 

 campfire of his early hunting days and his hunts in Dead Indian and 

 around Grizzly Peak. 



PINTAIL DUCKLING POSING FOR PICTURE 



