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and I could never see that it did any¬ 
thing but good to her. I believe the 
vast majority of women would benefit 
greatly through more outdoor ex¬ 
ercise and I have always been heartily 
thankful that my girl went in for such 
things. Surely Nature might well be 
called the GREAT PHYSICIAN. 
This trip, as a whole, was the best 
I have ever experienced. We hunted, 
fished and trapped to our own liking 
The wife proved an adept student and 
it wasn’t very long before she was trap¬ 
ping weasels and muskrats for further 
orders! She taught me a lot about 
cooking simple “luxuries” on the trail, 
things I had never thought of, and be 
lieve me they sure tasted good. 
On the return trip to the Athabasca 
we experienced a rather exciting time 
in crossing the Babtiste. This river 
had started to freeze over and it was 
well-nigh impossible to get the horses 
across the glare of ice and into the 
swift running channel. By dint of 
much hard work I finally managed to 
break the ice out from the north shore, 
after which the horses went in more 
readily and we got safely to the other 
side where I again broke our way out 
to the south shore. The Athabasca 
was running heavy with slush ice, and 
being too deep to ford, we rafted across 
and swam the horses behind. 
All this time we trappers had been 
praying for snow, as then we would 
be able to tell more about the amount 
of game in the country. Shortly after 
our return from Kimberly it snowed 
a couple of inches and I made a hasty 
trip back north as I had left a number 
of traps set for lynx and fox. On the 
whole distance from the Athabasca to 
Kimberly Lake I saw but one track, 
that of a brush wolf! To say that I 
was disappointed is putting it mildly. 
Here I was, settled down comfortable 
for the winter and NO FUR to trap! 
Being something of a rustler I was 
not to be easily outdone; if there was 
no fur in that part of the country I 
would look elsewhere! I decided to 
prospect for martens in the Moose 
Mountains to the southwest, as I knew 
of a line which had been vacant for 
three years. Parallel with the Atha¬ 
basca, and running southwest, was an 
old trail called the Medicine. Lodge. 
The first twelve or fifteen miles of this 
trail followed along the north side of 
the Moose Mountains at a fairly high 
elevation and the martens were ac¬ 
customed to run there quite frequently. 
There was a large creek running in¬ 
to the Athabasca and at its mouth I 
found an old trapping cabin in fairly 
good shape. There were two tin 
stoves and a few cooking utensils and 
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