of a question as to whether the natives 
of North America have received their 
just dues at the hands of the Whites. 
No doubt they have retarded the prog¬ 
ress of civilization, as they were not 
interested in advancement, but after all 
they were placed here, as a race, by the 
Creator. The Indians are fast disappear¬ 
ing in this part of the world—the 'Flu 
played havoc with their numbers, and 
certainly they will soon be like a large 
share of our game—a thing of the past. 
YY/ALTERS took a heavy load of 
vv whitefish to Sturgeon ’Lake, but 
even then there were a large number of 
piles lying around the fishing holes that 
we were unable to take care of at the 
time. After the fishim 
was over 
we stayed rather close to the Ninety 
Mile House for a time, as we had been 
pretty well fed up with cold and ex 
posure. One day, when it had turned a 
little warmer, the trader and I went over 
to the Lake. As we came to a point 
from which we could look over a part 
I of the lake, we noticed a number of 
foxes and they rapidly disappeared as we 
approached. There were twenty-six, all 
told, and several of them looked dark at 
; a distance 
When within a very few yards of a 
! spot where the foxes had been feeding 
heavily on the frozen fish, a big dark 
fellow sprang up out of the hole which 
had been dug in the snow (in order to 
get at the whitefish) and Walters shot 
him before he had taken a dozen leaps 
toward safety. 1 hat was a mighty big 
stroke of luck—a Silver Gray, worth 
anywhere from two to four ’ hundred 
dollars! 
Thus, in the trapping trade the good 
luck mixes with the bad, and I know of 
I nothing so apt to be thwart with chance 
j as trapping. Many times, weary and dis- 
i heartened, I have vowed never to trap 
| again; perhaps there is something fatal 
in that old saying, ‘‘Once a trapper, al¬ 
ways a trapper.” It is such incidents as 
the making of an unexpected good catch 
(like the above-mentioned) that lures 
j one on. The mere fact of bagging the 
quarry has very little to do with it. It 
is the uncertainty of the thing that ap¬ 
peals to the sporting instinct. Were 
! one certain that at a certain hour at a 
! certain place certain game could be had 
for the mere killing—where would the 
I pleasure be ! The trapper never knows, 
j when he starts over his long trapline, 
j whether he will come home empty in the 
j pack sack or with hundreds of dollars 
in furs. Many times have I experienced 
| fc he former and I also have taken Two 
Hundred and Sixty Dollars worth of 
narten from my traps in one day! 
Here we see the extreme—it is the aver- 
i ige that really tells the tale. 
|T will be remembered that Jim Still¬ 
man, the queer stranger who had 
hopped on us at the Ninetv Mile House, 
mad been given the job of helping La 
I woeque with the fish nets. He stuck 
I o the post for about a week and then 
j 1,sa PPeared as mysteriously as he came. 
| t was very cold at the time and we ex- 
i )ccted to find him somewhere on the 
| mils, frozen stiff! About a week later 
} age 271 
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