small sheet-iron stove was placed inside 
and after drawing the apparatus over the 
hole from which the net was to be drawn, 
a fire was lighted in the stove and things 
were real comfortable. 
Walters told me that the first year he 
had tried to net fish on Buck Lake he had 
met with very poor, success, while he 
'knew that the Indians would come there 
and catch wagonloads in a short time. 
This puzzled him for a long time, but the 
second winter he was enlightened by an 
old Indian named Neassus, who had 
I traded with him. Neassus took him over 
to Buck Lake and they went out on a 
raft, taking a number of long poles for 
H stakes. These the Indian drove into the 
|i mud at various points over the lake and 
told the white man to set his nets accord¬ 
ingly. Walters confessed that he was 
I somewhat dubious at first and was half 
inclined to believe that the Cree was play- 
| ing some joke on him. However, on try- 
| ing out the nets at these places he was 
; amazed at the result, he caught enough 
fish in two or three nights to last all 
I winter! 
There seems to be no set rule for de¬ 
termining the right places for setting 
lets, this may only be found out, as the 
j Indians did, through years of experience. 
: Certain it is that whitefish travel in 
| water lanes and in some parts of a lake 
pne wouldn’t catch a fish in a month of 
i'Sundays. At certain seasons fish “run” 
letter than at others, whitefish travel a 
i great deal more during the extreme cold 
weather of January than through any 
pther period. It was Walters’ intention 
o take a load or two of whitefish up to 
he Sturgeon reserve and sell them to the 
! ndians, as well as the scattering Whites, 
I;o we netted a large number of them dur- 
ng January and left them lying in piles 
j ibout the lake. How this affected our 
; rapping we will see later on. 
j f A ROCQUE, the Breed, had been 
L- J engaged by Walters to help him 
; with the fishing, and after he had made 
i :nough to get a little grub from the 
i radcr, he stayed in a little cabin, a hun- 
jlred yards or so away from us, to wait 
or the spring trapping. Many of these 
II reeds are disposed to do this sort of 
I hing, and very few of them will get out 
I ind hustle so long as they have a bite to 
i 'at. One night La Rocquc came to us 
nd said there was a crazy man at his 
| abin, and the Breed was actually so 
i cared that he was a sickly yellow. Even 
i t the time, it struck me as a mighty 
owardly act to leave his squaw and little 
oy to the mercies of a madman while he 
I amc to us for aid. 
Not knowing but what there might be 
dangerous character about, Walters 
j nd I, followed by the frightened Breed, 
! pproached the cabin wherein the mad- 
I ian was supposed to be, with some can¬ 
on. On looking through the one smoky 
i dndow.pane we saw a man of perhaps 
i orty-five, ragged and unkempt, a heavy 
rownish-black beard hiding the general 
; utlines of his face. To us he looked 
j armless enough, for even through the 
i dndow we could see his hands shaking 
Lrribly, and figuring that he was weak 
dth hunger and cold, we walked 
. oldly in. 
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