under the bunk I found a good axe. 
According to a plan of that part of the 
country, there were a number of traps 
on top of a big hill just out of the 
creek valley. The morning after I 
stopped at this cabin I climbed the hill 
and after some trouble found the traps. 
Taking a dozen and a half small ones, 
I started back for the Athabasca and 
set them all in marten pens along the 
Medicine Lodge Trail. I had not-ced 
quite a number of marten tracks com¬ 
ing up and was hoping desperately 
that this line would help me out of my 
difficulty. 
My little pal at the Athabasca was 
overjoyed to hear of my good luck and 
she had an extra good supper waiting 
for me. Believe me, I was living high 
for a trapper. I made a return trip up 
the Medicine Lodge Trail within a few 
days and got a nice dark marten on 
this trip as well as a number of 
weasels. I never noticed a single track 
of fox or lynx and came to the con¬ 
clusion that the country was absolutely 
void of any such game. 
It was getting high time we killed 
a moose; Mr. Rapelje did not get out 
much with a rifle and it was up to me 
to supply the meat. It was easy 
enough for me to get moose up west 
on the new trapline, but it was too far 
to carry the meat, so the wife and I 
made a trip back over the trail to Mile 
35, driving a team, behind which we 
sat in a light sleigh. There was just 
barely enough snow to make the sleigh¬ 
ing half way decent and the old trail 
was sure tracked up with moose. 
During the whole latter part of 
September and all of October, they are 
mating and the bulls are very bold 
and inquisitive and one can get right 
close to them. A few of the moose will 
mate as late as the latter part of 
November, thus it will be seen that no 
hard and fast rule can be laid down 
as to their actions at any certain 
period. As a rule, however, outside of 
the mating period even the bulls are 
mighty shy and don’t hanker after a 
man’s society. 
We drove up the long hill up Canyon 
Creek and down again to Mile 47, up 
Breakneck Hill and down a second time 
into Beaver Creek valley without see¬ 
ing our big quarry. As we were going 
slowly up Beaver Creek Hill, a slope 
three miles long, a gigantic bull rose 
up out of a hole near a big spring and 
trotted diagonally across the trail. I 
stood up in the sleigh and fired once 
at him with the .280 Ross, but missed 
him completely and an instant later he 
disappeared in the heavy brush that 
lined the trail. 
“There goes our winter’s meat!” 
laughed the wife as I came back, for I 
had jumped from the sleigh and ran 
ahead to see if there was any sign of 
my having hit the bull. For some time 
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