. On the "White Pass" pay-roll . hewould hold them personally responsible tosuch an extent that it would take a cleverdoctor to sort the pieces. The cook wasknown to be a man of his word in such mat-ters, and the result was that, so far as weknow, poor Mrs. Cinnamon Bear still lives tolament her vanished cook. When the railway was finished betweenCaribou Crossing and ^\^lite Horse the trainswere at first a pleasing novelty to the bears,but our trainmen not being as used to theseanimals as the men living amongst them inour construction camps, failed to appreciatetheir curiosity. One morning a f
. On the "White Pass" pay-roll . hewould hold them personally responsible tosuch an extent that it would take a cleverdoctor to sort the pieces. The cook wasknown to be a man of his word in such mat-ters, and the result was that, so far as weknow, poor Mrs. Cinnamon Bear still lives tolament her vanished cook. When the railway was finished betweenCaribou Crossing and ^\^lite Horse the trainswere at first a pleasing novelty to the bears,but our trainmen not being as used to theseanimals as the men living amongst them inour construction camps, failed to appreciatetheir curiosity. One morning a freight trainhad been dispatched from White Horse atonce after the regular passenger train. Thelatter after proceeding a few miles had tostop to repair an air brake, and as usual onsuch occasions the rear brakeman was sentback to flag the train coming stop had been made just beyond a longdeep cutting with a sharp curve in it, so thatthe flagman was soon out of sight. But notfor long. Almost at once he re-appeared[ 104]. z Concerning Bears flying for his life, and hurled himself breath-lessly on to the rear platform of the last carpanting, I d-don t t-think he s-saw me!And if he d-didn t see me then h-he h-hasn tseen me since. The conductor took theflag and went back down the line to see whatwas up. Round the curve he found an en-ormous bear standing in the middle of thetrack, but just then the freight train camein sight and the bear climbed up the side of thecutting and disappeared in the woods. Thegravel bank of the cutting showed plainlywhere he had scrambled down to investigateas soon as he had heard the first train go by. It was the same with our steamboats on theRiver. The bears back in the woods usedto hear the paddles and come running to seewhat it all meant. Then the passengers onthe steamers used to get excited and hurryfor guns and rifles and come wildly runningalong the decks, loading as they ran, in thehope of getting a shot. This being more asource of dan
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