would 
xe! He would not let me carry it; he 
not let me use it. 
‘I have brought you out, and I’m 
ijoing to bring you back on your two 
legs,” he said. “I guess you can use 
in axe all right, but, I just want to do 
.his myself and I don’t want you to 
?et peeved over it. Accidents are awk¬ 
ward things on a trip like this, and 
hey’re worse’n worse the farther we 
?o.” 
Of course I didn’t get “peeved.” I 
lever could have felled trees to his 
;atisfaction anyway, so I took on the 
ole of dishwasher and wood-carrier 
or the trip. 
We had each a little tin saucer and 
i cup for our meals. The cup held 
he coffee and everything else was in- 
xtricably jumbled on the tin saucer. 
ls George remarked, “it’s all going the 
ame way anyway. As soon mix it 
eforehand, as afterwards.” 
As we crouched in our tiny shelter, 
eorge told me of how he had run away 
rom his home and had come west to 
s a cow-puncher in Wyoming; how he 
ad been a cow-boy and a horse- 
reaker for nine years, then had tired 
c it, had felt the lure of the wilds 
: British Columbia, had pre-empted 
I' the head of Sugar Lake and had 
apped and ranched there for the last 
ghteen years. 
At last I dozed inside my sleeping- 
ig. George stretched himself out, 
ith nothing extra to cover him but a 
cond waistcoat made from an old 
lolen blanket. He would lie on his 
ck, cover his face with his hat and 
;ep thus in defiance of the elements. I 
The chill of early morning awakenec 
3, but later analysis convinced me 
at this was the most comfortable 
?ht of the entire trip. 
When we struck camp it was stil 
owing softly and the snow-shoeing 
anything was worse than ever. Our 
} es got clogged and we had to knock 
3m with our poles continually. At 
les we would be lifting ten pounds 
snow at 6ach step. Convicts in a 
lin-gang, with weights at their legs 
I nothing on us. We could not have 
a away from a blind tortoise on 
itches. 
•Ve held down into the Valley and 
lowed the course of the Shuswap 
rer for a bit, crossing over it where 
snow had collected on the boulders 
;he stream forming a natural bridge, 
ich afforded good footing. The 
ne of this place was Star Creek and 
was a perfect fairyland of snow, 
ter and trees. Soon after, we came 
in a number of beaver dams, at one 
vhich we watched a big fellow sport 
he water before he detected us. 
leorge had the trapping rights for a 
;tch of some twenty miles of this 
?r and he talked about the beaver 
le did about his cattle. He nursed 
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