January, 1923 
leave a comfortable home and loved ones 
merely for the sake of adventuring? It 
is something hard to answer and yet all 
of us will admit that we owe a great deal 
to men who have pushed beyond the 
pale of civilization and uncovered new 
lands, rich in opportunities! 
A lad of my own age, “Cliff” Knowles, 
with whom I had chummed for the 
last ten years, arranged to come back to 
Canada with me. We left Washington 
during the first week of September and 
came straight through to Edson, as fast 
as we could make the necessary 
changes, with the exception of a couple 
E of days spent in Edmonton. During 
this stop I purchased a .280 Ross, as I 
had been so pleased with the perform¬ 
ance of Old John Anderson’s .303 Ross, 
that I had fully decided to try one of the 
more powerful calibres. 
I N due time we reached the Baptiste 
Crossing, and I found Old John the 
same as I had left him. We learned 
that a horse rancher, MacGregor 
Rapelje, had squatted on some river 
flats just three miles up the Baptiste 
and was intending to bring out his wife 
and sister (the latter a blind woman of 
nearly seventy). This was good news 
to us, as we figured the winter would 
not be quite so lonely. I had intended 
buying Old John out if he would sell 
and after some dickering we took over 
everything he had but a small box of 
personal effects. In the outfit was a 
fourteen-foot Peterborough canoe which 
we figured on taking up to Kimberly 
Lake. 
Knowles went out to Edson with Old 
John in order to attend to the turning 
over of the government job that went 
with the ferry and I was left alone at 
the Baptiste. I was not lonesome, how¬ 
ever. A couple of hundred yards above 
the crossing was a sandstone cliff 
against which the water rushed over 
some rapids, forming a deep pool. Here 
I had a night line set for bull trout. 
Nearly every morning I would have any¬ 
where from twenty to fifty pounds of 
fish and it was quite a job drying them. 
I had a sort of smoke house rigged up 
and after soaking the bull trout in a 
brine over night I smoked them. They 
were very delicious this way. 
One day I happened to look down the 
trail and there not a hundred yards from 
the cabin stood a fine three-year-old 
bull moose. Taking down the old 280 
I let him have it in the shoulder and 
he dropped stone dead. Truly, I did 
have a job on my hands then. The flies 
were still bad and I had to work pretty 
fast in order to save the meat, but when 
I got it into the smoke house it was all 
right. I kept a little of it for frying 
and smoked the rest, first rubbing well 
with coarse salt. This meat, along with 
the trout, assured of a plentiful supply 
for some time to come. 
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