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Preface
BOOKS of hunting and trapping adventure for the young are superabundant. But whence do most of them derive their inspiration
? Certainly not from nature. The toils and privations which
are the certain and continuous daily incidents of such a life are usually
glozed over or ignored altogether, while purely imaginary, or
at best very infrequent, cases of good-fortune are grouped together
and follow one another as though of every-day occurrence. The
impression so produced on the minds of the young is an absolutely
false impression. That it is pernicious as well, the police records of
every large city bear witness. Hardly a week passes in which lads,
beguiled by such books, are not arrested on their way to kill Indians
and hunt buffaloes in the far West.
This book is the outcome of a suggestion that a story truthfully
portraying the actual life of the hunter and trapper would be timely.
The author has succeeded or failed in his purpose, in the exact
proportion in which he succeeds or fails in impressing on the minds
of his readers the truth that a special education is as necessary to a
life in the wilderness as it is to navigate that other wilderness—the
boundless ocean.
H. P. W.
New York, September, 1889.
Table of Contents CHAPTER I. DEPARTURE.—ARRIVAL.—A HUNTING TRIP IN THE FOREST.—DISCOURAGEMENT.— A CHANGE OF PLAN CHAPTER II. THE FOOD QUESTION AND ITS SOLUTION.—FRIENDLY ADVICE.—INTO THE HEART OF THE WILDERNESS.— DEER.—THE TIMID MULE.—THE "BIG RIP."—THE FIRST CAMP. —SUPPER. — " IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A BAD IDEA IF WE HAD TAKEN A FEW LESSONS IN COOKING."—SLEEP.—THE NIGHT ALARM CHAPTER III. BREAKFAST.—THE TRAPS ARE SET.— PASSING THE "BIG RIP."—DISASTER.— JOHN DANT, THE TRAPPER. "HE WHO AIMS ALL OVER [AN ANIMAL] DON'T STAND MUCH CHANCE OF HITTING ANYWHERE IN PARTICULAR." CHAPTER IV. TO THE SCENE OF DISASTER.—THE CAUSE OF THE NIGHT ALARM.—RUNNING A RAPID.—NOTHING SAVED FROM THE WRECK.—"WHAT SHALL WE DO?"—A TIMELY INVITATION.— THE "TIMID MULE" AGAIN.—A HINT ON TRAPPING.—POLING UP THE "BIG RIP" CHAPTER V. PREPARING FOR A TRAMP. — LAYING OUT A SABLE LINE.—TRAPPING SABLE AND FISHER CHAPTER VI. LUNCH AT THE LITTLE RIVER.—CAMP-FIRES IN THE WOODS.—THE CARIBOU.—LOST. — HOW A WOODSMAN FINDS HIS WAY IN THE FOREST.—A DEER-ROAD AND TRAIL CHAPTER VII. HACK AT DANT'S CAMP.—MOOSE-TALK.—A HUNTING ADVENTURE.—ATTACKED BY A MOOSE CHAPTER VIII. THROUGH THE WOODS INTO CANADA.—HARD TRAVELLING.—THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—ARRIVAL AT THE BOG.— A SHOT AT A DEER CHAPTER IX. RIFLE -SHOOTING AT GAME.—HABITS OF DEER.—THE BOG CAMP.—VISIT FROM A SKUNK.—HOW THE NORTH -EASTERN BOUNDARY LINK WAS LOCATED CHAPTER X. TRAILING A WOUNDED DEER.— "A CRACK SHOT."— ENCOUNTER WITH CARIBOU. A DEAD DEER. A DEER- SLED.—A TUMP-LINE.—COASTING ON A DEER CHAPTER XI. VENISON.—THE TRAPPER'S REFRIGERATOR; ITS LOCK AND KEY.—BEAVER.—BEAVER DAMS.—BEAVER FOOD.—THE BEAVER'S HOUSE.—THE BEAVER'S FOOD-PILE.—THE BOAT THIEVES CHAPTER XII. BEAVERS' WORK.—BEAVERS' TEETH. HOW BEAVERS FELL TREES.—BEAVER CANALS. —THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE BEAVER. —HABITS OF THE BEAVER.—CHANCE ENCOUNTER.— THE TRAPPER'S FRUIT -TREE.— TRAPPING BEAVERS.—SETTING BEAVER-TRAPS.—THE FRONT-LEG SET. THE HIND-LEG SET.— MIDWINTER TRAPPING CHAPTER XIII. MOOSE -CALLING PROPOSED AND ABANDONED.—THEY TRY JACK-HUNTING.—AN UNFORTUNATE ENCOUNTER.—"GOOD GRACIOUS ! WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" CHAPTER XIV. THE WOODSMAN'S AXE AND ITS DANGERS.—AN ACCIDENT.— " GRAB IT, THERE'S BUTTONS ON IT!"—MOOSE -CALLING.—THE TRAPPER CALLS.— A MOOSE AT LAST.—STARTLING ENCOUNTER CHAPTER XV. RETURN TO THE LAKE — "TIT FOR TAT." THE TRAPPER LECTURES ON CARIBOU. APPEARANCE OF THE CARIBOU.—HABITS OF THE CARIBOU.—THE CARIBOU'S CURIOUS TRICKS ON THE ICE.— FOOD OF THE CARIBOU. A TRIAL OF SPEED.— A CHASE ON SNOW-SHOES.—A CARIBOU HUNT CHAPTER XVI. STORM-BOUND.—PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.—THE TRAPPER COMMENTS ON LIFE IN THE WOODS.—THE BOYS RETURN HOME
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