. Camp-fires of a naturalist [microform] : the story of fourteen expeditions after North American mammals, from the field notes of Lewis Lindsay Dyche, , , professor of zoology and curator of birds and mammals in the Kansas State University. Dyche, Lewis Lindsay, 1857-1916; Dyche, Lewis Lindsay, 1857-1916; Mammals; Mammals; Naturalists; Zoology; Mammifères; Mammifères; Naturalistes; Zoologie. CAMPFTRES OF A NATURALIST. Four had seemingly been shot through at the first fire. Dycho was ashamed and almost vowed to give up hunting on account of the unwarranted slaugh- ter. He made all the
. Camp-fires of a naturalist [microform] : the story of fourteen expeditions after North American mammals, from the field notes of Lewis Lindsay Dyche, , , professor of zoology and curator of birds and mammals in the Kansas State University. Dyche, Lewis Lindsay, 1857-1916; Dyche, Lewis Lindsay, 1857-1916; Mammals; Mammals; Naturalists; Zoology; Mammifères; Mammifères; Naturalistes; Zoologie. CAMPFTRES OF A NATURALIST. Four had seemingly been shot through at the first fire. Dycho was ashamed and almost vowed to give up hunting on account of the unwarranted slaugh- ter. He made all the amends in his pov,.;r, and every pound of meat and all the skins were saved. Blown went down the trail to Harvey's with the meat. In his whole hunting experience thereafter this served as a good lesson. He never again shot at random into a bunch of animals, but always singled out the one wanted for meat or a specimen. The first night after Brown went down with the meat a big bear passed along the trail, kc- mg a track as big as a peck measure. Dycho resolved to see where that bear went if it took all summer. With a light lunch in his pocket, a thin rubber blanket, some matches, a hatchet, his rifle, and seven- teen cartridges he started on the campaign. The trail was fresh and the bear did not seem to know that he was followed. He went swinging along, leaving a trail that could bo followed on the nm. Here he had turned over a log and there he had scratched up the earth looking for roots and tender shoots. He wandered around in an apparently aim- less manner, and Dyche followed every track. Here a stream had been crossed and tlie water was still muddy where the big fellow had stopped to wallow. The trail led into a deep fir forest and it was almost dusk under the trees. The pines interlaced at the top and the ground was covered with a thick bed of needles, shredded fir-cones that had been opened by squirrels looking for the seeds, and leaves, whicl formed a carpet in some plac
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