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nose and eyes is visible. Though he has 
seen you, curiosity is his master, and he 
continues slowly to draw near. You 
raise your rifle to shoot but you are too 
quick. Your sudden movement alarms 
the beaver, and down he goes. Instead 
of the report of your rifle, you hear the 
derisive plash of the beaver’s tail ; or you 
may shoot too late and hear both shot 
and splash. You should have raised your 
gun slowly; very, very slowly. There 
should be no quick movement of arm, 
hand or head. Another difficulty may be 
that the beaver is moving, your canoe is 
also moving, or is unsteady and the 
mark is very small. Well, if you hit it, 
you are lucky. Then you make haste 
to recover the animal, for, unless he is 
very fat, he will sink. 
And thus ! put in the time until the 
close of the season. The traps were ex- 
amined each morning, and the sets made ; 
the skins were prepared in the afternoon, 
and in the evening there was canoeing 
into ponds and sloughs. Something new 
ever arrested my attention and I was 
happy. I learned much about beaver 
and about the life of the trapper. Trap- 
ping is hard work, but the season is short, 
being from October to May. A good 
trapper will have cabins convenient to 
his trapping grounds. Early in the sea- 
son he must pack in the necessary sup- 
plies and for such purpose the canoe is 
unexcelled. One man can transport five 
hundred pounds of freight up a swift 
mountain stream at the rate of eight 
miles per day. The trapper’s fare is 
simple for he, like the animals he seeks, 
eats to live instead of living to eat. Oat- 
meal, hot-cakes, moose (if he can get it), 
potatoes, beans, beaver-saddle and liver, 
canned milk, tea, coffee and sugar con- 
stitute his bill of fare. Of traps, twenty- 
five are required for a good beaver line. 
As a trap, with chain, weighs about 
seven pounds, the labor of carrying sev- 
eral requires strength. 
Some who have told the story of John 
Colter’s thrilling escape from Indians on 
the Jefferson Fork of the Missouri in 
1809, intimate that it was foolhardy in 
him to return later to the scene of his 
adventure for the purpose of recovering 
some beaver traps that he had cached. 
There was nothing strange about it, how- 
ever, for to John Colter loss of his tra,ps 
was a serious matter and possession of 
them was a real necessity. There was 
no trading-post nearby at which he 
could have replaced them ; and when 
traps or food have been transported for 
more than a thousand miles by man- 
power alone and cannot otherwise be re- 
placed, they are valuable indeed. John 
Colter did only what any other trapper 
■of his time would have done under the 
same circumstances. The trapper of to- 
day must have his caches of traps, nails 
and other imperishable necessities just as 
did the Western trapper of old. 
DEAVER trapping late in the spring 
^ and early in the fall entails much 
personal exposure. In October and No- 
vember the weather is bleak and cold ; 
ice forms on paddle, pole and line; rain, 
sleet and snow chill the blood. In March 
and early April, there is snow, slush and 
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