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that could punish them severely for de¬ 
spoiling' its home. Windfall apples are 
their especial delight, for they find it 
easy to get the seeds, and until the 
apples begin to rot there is plenty of 
juicy flesh to enjoy. Mushroom hunters 
would never be at a loss as to what 
mushrooms could safely be eaten if they 
were to accept the judgment of this fas¬ 
tidious little chap. He knows the good 
from the bad and is never at a loss him¬ 
self ; shunning all poisonous and emetic 
varieties, while revelling in the delicious 
taste of edible fungi. 
Unless trapped, they are seldom seen 
in daytime, occasionally coming out on 
cloudy days, and the only one I ever saw 
in the sunlight was a mother whose nest 
I had disturbed. But at night you may 
hear their little feet rustle beside you in 
the leaves as you stroll along the wood 
path, or perhaps hear their faint squeaks 
—mere whispers of sound—as they call 
to each other in their work and play. 
The reign of night is one which man is 
not apt to dispute (at least in the 
woods), and when he does question it. 
he must carry his sunshine with him like 
the firefly, for his eyes make him a crea¬ 
ture of light, not of darkness. But the 
shy one, as the Indians call him, knows 
the darkness is his best friend, for, al¬ 
though many of his enemies are abroad 
at that time, not one has the advantage 
over him in eyesight during the noc¬ 
turnal hours. 
TRAPPING THE THREE 
RIVER ZONE 
(Continued from page 58) 
Murphy continued to have fair luck 
with the foxes so he sent in a number 
of skins with us. That was the tragic 
part of it—while we had plenty of 
money, or its equivalent in furs, this fact 
would not keep us from starving. 
Another thing that had gone against us 
of late was the disappearance of the 
moose and deer. Try as hard as we 
might it seemed that we were unable to 
get any meat. We hunted at every op¬ 
portunity and generally carried our large 
rifles with us when on the trapline, but 
in our hour of need no game crossed 
our path. 
The trip out to Edson was very hard 
on us as we had to break trail through 
the fresh snow. Nevertheless we made 
the trip in short order and the evening 
of the sixth day found us back at the 
Athabasca. Furs sold on that trip 
averaged as follows: Red fox, ten dol¬ 
lars ; lynx, twelve dollars; brush wolves, 
six dollars; ermine, sixty cents. We 
had taken Murphy’s silver fox in with 
us but the best offer we got was forty- 
five dollars so we brought it back to 
him. After dividing up our pitifully 
small grubstake it was at once apparent 
that we would have to keep on the trail 
for the rest of the winter as it would 
be impossible to get out with horses 
before May. 
Mr. Rapelje continued to lose his 
horses and in an attempt to save a tean 
for use when the snow left he brough 
four of the strongest ones over to th 
Athabasca and had Murphy feed then 
what little wild hay remained there. I 
was pitiful the way the poor creature 
died. The only place where they coul< 
get any feed at all was on the hillside 
facing the south. Here the wretchei 
d u m b animals pawed unceasingly 
searching for the dried grass under th 
snow until their strength gave out an< 
they fell into the snow for the last time 
unable to regain their feet. 
Knowles and I were on the trail fron 
morning to night and it kept us might 
busy running our lines and making th 
trips to town, each of the latter bein: 
a hundred and twenty miles both ways 
We were like steel, tempered by th 
scourge of the trail till we hardly knev 
what fatigue meant. Every night 01 
the traplines we spent all the way fron 
one to four hours tending to our fun 
depending, of course, on the amoun 
taken each day. Here is where w 
learned the value of our sleigh dog' 
A large number of the furs taken fron 
a wilderness trapline are dead an< 
frozen stiff as boards when the trappe 
comes along. Small animals are no 
hard to handle, even when frozen, an< 
may be placed in one’s pack-sack am 
carried readily. A frozen lynx or brusi 
wolf, however, is an awkward load fo 
the trapper. Our traplines were cut ou 
so that we could drive the dog team any 
where and all we had to do was to stop 
take the animal from the trap and thro\ 
it on the sleigh. 
One would hardly believe that ai 
ordinary dog can be broken to work S' 
well on a sleigh, and the loads four o 
five of these faithful animals can dra\ 
is surprising indeed. I for one, woul< 
never be without them and today havi 
one dog, which I use as a leader, tha 
I would not part with. A leader is th' 
main thing in a dog team—for with ; 
good one who knows the trails and wil 
follow them, one can go most anywhere 
Indeed, I do not know what we woul< 
have done that winter without dogs a 
there was no other means of gettini 
grub to that part of the world withou 
using an airplane. 
(To be continued ) 
WINTER IN OUR GAMI 
COVERS 
(Continued from page 55) 
farmer’s lad about trapping weasels ant 
shooting crows and hawks may no 
come amiss either, and often times ; 
small gift of a few shells or steel trap 
will bring forth a promise to put ou 
feed regularly throughout the cole 
months. Anything done along this lin< 
will have its certain reward, and whai 
another October rolls around and yoi 
come up to that first point all eager wit! 
expectancy, you can say to yourself, “If 
I kill this fellow, I have earned him anc 
many others, too,” and thus disclaim the 
old adage which says that “You can’f 
eat your cake and keep it too!” 
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