GEORGE THE TRAPPER 
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plied with every toy Noah’s ark worthy 
of the name. 
There on the ridge we came across 
fresh caribou tracks, but did not catch 
a glimpse of the animals themselves. 
“Which way is she going, George?” 
I asked that night, as I stood shivering 
with soaking feet, and wet clothes from 
carrying a wet pack all day, ready to 
help George to carry the logs as he cut 
them down for our fire. It was a big¬ 
sized tree he was felling. He came 
over and placed a stick upright in the 
snow, about thirty feet from the base 
of the tree. 
“See that?” he said. 
“Yes.” 
“Wal—I’m goin’ to drop this tree 
right on top of that stick.” 
And in four strokes more he did it, 
burying the upright stick far into the 
snow. 
He grinned. “That reminds me of 
the raw chappie I once heard about,” 
he said. “He was chopping down a 
tree. ‘Which way is she goin’, Charlie,’ 
cried his pal. ‘ ’Ow the ’ell do I know,’ 
shouted the raw chappie. ‘Do you 
think I’m a bloomin’ prophet?’ ” 
This night was similar to several 
others we spent on the summit—dry 
logs on top of green ones on sixteen 
feet of snow; balsam smoke and, 
despite green logs for a fire bottom, 
the fire six feet below us in the morn¬ 
ing and heat nowhere. And with so 
much snow about us, we could not 
better it. 
Then for one night we camped on 
real earth. We found it under a giant 
balsam, whose twelve feet in circum¬ 
ference of branches reached the earth 
and had kept the snow from piling 
under. But our poor luck seemed to 
follow us, for the temperature dropped 
to fifteen degrees below zero. That 
night I seemed to have absorbed more 
wet than on any previous day of our 
traveling. Standing at the smoky fire, 
in that bitter cold weather, I had to 
take off and dry, one by one, every 
garment I wore, right to my skin, be¬ 
fore I could venture to sleep in safety. 
“Do you wonder now,” said George, 
“that a trapper is a crank on woolen 
goods and that when he asks in a store 
for woolen clothes he wants to get 
them? A trapper’s very life depends 
on the kind of material he wears, not 
on the cut of it, and there is nothing 
on God’s green earth that can turn 
water and keep the heat like straight, 
honest wool.” 
As if to recompense us for all our 
climbing, the sun came out bright and 
dazzling on our last day on the summit 
and the beauty of our surroundings 
was indescribable. Below us stretched 
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