Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains . :i!i,h pliilik of i\ sfrainei-ru(l lip foi- ill uighl oil the Mi«suuris bankfacing this , walked out in the dark-ness to meet the guiles of the watery nymp,decked out as pretty maid; or w^as seized anddragged through the mry depths to themyeteiicus subteranian al cde of the morosebut feathery dressed hunter At any event,after he passed beyond the glare of the boatslanding torches on that Novemb
Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains . :i!i,h pliilik of i\ sfrainei-ru(l lip foi- ill uighl oil the Mi«suuris bankfacing this , walked out in the dark-ness to meet the guiles of the watery nymp,decked out as pretty maid; or w^as seized anddragged through the mry depths to themyeteiicus subteranian al cde of the morosebut feathery dressed hunter At any event,after he passed beyond the glare of the boatslanding torches on that November night 1870he passed from human sight forever. During the winter of 1S77-8, I visited thislake for mink and otter, aad made profit> -ble catches. These animals liad left the lakeand were wintering, as their wont, on thesmall spring branches. In December 183 ), a h i ; a 11 ^^n ;party of five of us making two camps, pro-ceeded to try for a final clean up of watergame. The winter was severe by spells, butdeep snows and melting thaws enabled us tokill several deer and trap some foxes, wolves,catamounts, mink and beaver. The writing m3mb3r of th3 firm. Lxwyar 138 TWENTY YEARS. If/ ^- <
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