put it out as neatly as if he had blown 
it out. 
With strange thoughts weaving 
through my mind, it was only natural 
-that I should dream that night. I saw 
myself, immaculate in a dress suit, at 
a ball and asking a pretty lady to 
dance. She consented and we started 
i ou b but, try as I liked, I could make 
no headway, something kept obstruct¬ 
ing me; one foot seemed to impede the 
other. I was in a helpless tangle but, 
i for the life of me, could not fathom 
the trouble until the master of cere¬ 
monies touched me on the shoulder and 
suggested that I would be able to dance 
much better if I took off my snow- 
shoes. 
Coincidence it may have been, but 
every night we lay within the sound 
of running water, my sleep was dis¬ 
turbed by strange dreams. 
On making an early start from the 
-abin next morning, we discarded every 
inessential, in order to get our packs 
lown to the absolute minimum, for the 
lext few days were going to be days 
>f continuous upward travelling and 
ilready I discovered what an extra 
ialf pound on one’s back means in a 
lay’s trip. 
No sooner did we get on to the trap 
ine than we saw signs of that most 
lated of all the trapper’s enemies— 
he wolverine. How George cursed 
hat brute as its tracks showed up 
;head of us, following the line with 
tnerring instinct and visiting every 
rap on that particular lay. 
Do you wonder at a trapper get- 
ing sore at a brute like that?” George 
aid, "and there isn’t a bounty on it, 
Ithough a wolverine kills more deer 
nd grouse than the coyote does. As 
or fur, he destroys it for the sake of 
estroying. Leave a skinned carcass 
round and he won’t look at it, but 
e’H rip a marten fur to ribbons out 
f a trap, just for the fun of doing 
“Don’t you ever catch them?” I 
sked. 
“Once in a blue-moon! But most 
mes, the brutes won’t be caught. I 
ive several fall traps of wood set on 
lis run, for the wolverine shies clear 
anything made of metal. Do you 
low, the wolverine has forgotten 
ore about trapping than most trap¬ 
es know. We trappers are sure that 
hen one of us dies his spirit becomes 
wolverine and he has to follow the 
les, sort of paying for what he did 
hen he was a trapper himself, tor- 
enting perdition in the heart of the 
re trapper as he goes. He gets freed 
his sins when he gets caught, but it 
ems part o’ his punishment that he 
ts to try his darndest not to get 
ught and, knowin’ most o’ the tricks 
the trapper beforehand, it takes a 
w one to get him.” 
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