December, 1922 
He had been daily expecting a large 
order of groceries through a freighter 
and when this failed to turn up things 
began to assume serious proportions. It 
was then that we got our first taste of 
real hunger. Already we had been ac- 
customed to eating practically all kinds 
of wild game. We found the meat of 
the beaver very palatable, the tail mak- 
ing unusually rich soup. In a large pail 
we kept rabbits boiling whenever either 
of us was in camp and there was a real 
“spread” in sight when we gathered 
enough fat from next the kidneys of the 
rabbits to fry one. The hind quarters 
of muskrats, when fried, were excellent. 
Perhaps the lowest ebb of our “grub 
tide” came the day when we tried to 
eat skunk ! Somewhere we had read that 
skunk, if properly prepared, was rather 
good — I guess we didn’t prepare it as 
we were supposed to, for it tasted a 
great deal like it smelled. 
On the second day of December I left 
Kimberly Lake for the Baptiste, to see 
if the freighter had come along yet. On 
top of Fraser Mountain, some five miles 
north of the Baptiste, was a small lake 
just off the trail. On this lake we had 
a set for fox. As I rounded the last 
bend in the trail I beheld a black animal 
struggling in the trap, or at least it 
looked entirely black at that distance. 
When I got closer I saw at a glance that 
the coat, especially back on the hips, was 
sprinkled with silver gray hairs. I 
killed the fox, skinned it and cached the 
fur under a log. Oddly enough I 
thought the animal a cross fox as I 
figured that a silver gray should be the 
same color all over. 
Many tales are written that have as 
their theme the alleged great value of 
the silver gray fox. Few people, out- 
side of professional trappers and fur 
dealers, realize what one of these skins 
is worth to the man who traps the fox 
that wore it as a coat. I have seen a 
large number of these skins and have 
seen them exchange hands at prices 
ranging from $45.00 to $325.00, the lat- 
ter figure*' being far above the average. 
And yet one constantly hears of “thou- 
sand-dollar” foxes and even double that 
figure ! There are hundreds of men 
going trapping every fall, led on by the 
single hope of catching just one silver 
gray fox. Such men are doomed to dis- 
appointment. There is, nevertheless, a 
great fascination in the knowledge that 
one has a chance to capture one of these 
truly beautiful animals. 
My trip down the Baptiste was a dis- 
appointment as far as securing grub 
was concerned, although Old Jo’hn gen- 
erously divided what he had. On the 
way back to Kimberly I picked up my 
fox skin and placed it as a surprise deep 
down in the pack sack. Cy had caught 
nothing to speak of while I was gone 
and said he was somewhat discouraged 
OAmr our prospects. We decided that 
we would stay until our grub supply 
was down to the last bit of tea and 
flour and then hit for Edson, to dispose 
of our catch and buy a good grubstake. 
When Cy took the stuff out of my 
pack sack he noticed this piece of can- 
vas, in which was wrapped the silver 
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