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to camp, we did not feel like taking a 
thirty-five mile trip through the inky 
darkness, rain and mud, with our cloth¬ 
ing wet through to our skin. 
It is surprising what a difference a 
meal of fried bacon, good bread and 
hot coffee makes in a case of this kind. 
When we had satisfied our hunger and 
got out of our wet clothes, we felt that 
we had had a good hunt even though 
our game bag was empty. We sat on 
our blankets and chatted, enjoying the 
warmth from the oil stove, until we 
began to get sleepy and Fred proposed 
that we roll in our blankets for a 
sleep. We left the oil stove burning, 
hung our clothes on the ridge pole of 
our tent so that they would dry before 
morning, turned in and were soon fast 
asleep. 
I judged it to be about three-thirty 
in the morning when I was awakened 
by a scratching sound at the tent en¬ 
trance, and believing that the dogs had 
returned, I got up, lit the lantern, and 
opened the tent flap to find only Mike 
had returned. Wondering what could 
have brought him in alone, I proceeded 
E to make him a bed in the corner of the 
tent, as I did not want to take the 
trouble to dress, and it was too cold 
to go out as I was, and shut him in the 
box that I carry the dogs in on these 
trips. 
When I had arranged a comfortable 
bed I showed him his place, but instead 
of lying down to rest as might be ex¬ 
pected of a dog that had run as long 
as he, he whined, looked up at me, then 
in a listening attitude looked toward 
the tent entrance. While watching his 
peculiar actions with no other sound 
than the roaring of the wind which 
had now become a gale, I fancied I 
heard the distant bark of a dog away 
to the southwest. Suddenly the thought 
of the old man of the swamp and his 
hundred or more fox traps flashed 
through my brain. Had Belle started 
for camp, and having been hungry at¬ 
tempted to make a meal of one of his 
baits, and become fast in his traps? 
I can assure you the thought was any¬ 
thing but a pleasant one. My fellow 
hunters who read this will readily un¬ 
derstand that I thought a lot of this 
little dog. I aroused Fred from a 
sound sleep and told him my fears; 
also that I thought Mike was trying 
to tell me in dog language that we 
were needed in the swamp. 
Fred was up in an instant. We got 
into our clothes which were about dry 
now, and taking our lantern and a 
small axe that I carry on my belt when 
hunting, we set out into the storm. 
The rain of the day before had been 
replaced by snow, and I learned after¬ 
wards that the gale that was blowing 
the snow into deep drifts was travel¬ 
ing at a speed of forty-five miles an 
hour. The same storm (I saw by the 
papers) had, at Buffalo, attained a 
velocity of ninety-five miles, and had 
done considerable damage. 
We had gone only a few yards when 
our lantern went out with the wind, 
and it was useless to think of trying 
to relight it. So we proceeded in the 
darkness, directed by the occasional 
barking of Belle. As she appeared to 
be at the edge of the swamp, we kept 
in the clearing. We had covered about 
a mile, could hear her quite plainly, 
and knew we were near our goal. We 
were glad that she happened to be at 
the edge of the swamp. When we came 
close, we discovered to our delight that 
she was not in a trap, but standing on 
the top of a rail fence looking intently 
into a scrubby pine tree that grew be¬ 
side the fence. 
The secret was out. I knew at pnce 
that reynard had taken refuge in the 
upper branches of the tree. The rail 
fence led directly into the swamp, and 
it is my opinion that reynard mounted 
the fence in the swamp, ran along it 
for a distance of perhaps one hundred 
yards, and then sprang from the fence 
to the lower branch of the pine tree. 
From there it was an easy matter to 
climb higher as the limbs grew only a 
few inches apart. 
Fred was delighted at the turn 
events had taken in our favor, and 
could hardly contain himself through 
the remaining hours of darkness. I 
sent him back to camp to bring his 
gun as we should need one to bring 
reynard out of the tree when it be¬ 
came light enough to shoot. When he 
had gone I set about the task of start¬ 
ing a fire, for I knew we should have 
a wait of from two and a half to three 
hours before daylight, and I was be¬ 
ginning to chill after getting heated, 
walking from camp. When I had used 
up all but two of my matches, I suc¬ 
ceeded (by retiring into the thick 
cedar), in lighting a piece of pine root 
that was full of rosin, and soon had a 
good fire burning. Fred # returned 
shortly with his gun and we sat by the 
fire. All this time. Belle, who had left 
her position on the fence, kept walking 
up and down by the tree, ever looking 
up and seeming as anxious as we for 
the light of day. 
At last the sky became gray in the 
east, and it was not long before we 
could discern a nose, two ears and a 
pair of dark cheeks as reynard peered 
at us over the edge of an old crow’s 
nest, about thirty feet from the ground, 
upon which he had curled up. 
There is not much left to tell. Fred 
loaded his Lefevre with number five 
shot and went out into the clearing to 
a distance of thirty-five paces. I re¬ 
mained close to the tree. At the re¬ 
port of Fred’s gun, reynard leaped 
about one and one-half feet from the 
nest and dropped to the ground, dead. 
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