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While we were on our travels we'd sleep with a blanket round us, under any shelter we could rig up, a few spruce-boughs or a bark hut. When the snow came, we were forced to shorten our trips, so as to reach one of the home-camps each night. "Well, it was early in the season, one fine fall evening, that I was crossing Togue Ponds in a canoe.
At this gust of protest Herb smiled, though rather soberly, and went ahead as he was bidden. "We made camp together him and me. We had two home-camps where I told you, and met at the end of each week, bringing the skins we had taken, which we stored in one of 'em. We got along together swimmingly for a bit. But Chris had a weakness which I had found out long before.
Thar's the time, too, when I crosses up at Chico Springs with eighty Injuns who's been buffalo huntin' over to the South Paloduro, an' has with 'em four hundred odd ponies loaded with hides an' buffalo beef an' all headed for their home-camps over back of Taos. The bucks is restin' up a day or two when I rides in; later me an' a half dozen jumps a band of antelopes jest 'round a p'int of rocks.
"It is five years now, boys, since I spent a fall and winter trapping in them woods we were speaking of I and another fellow. We had two home-camps, which were our headquarters, snug log shelters, one on Togue Ponds, the other on the side of Katahdin.
As sure as ever the sun went down on a Saturday night, we two trappers met at one or other of these home-camps; though during the week we were mostly apart. For we had several lines of traps, which covered big distances in various directions; and on Monday morning I used to start one way, and my chum another, to visit these. Generally it took us five or six days to make the rounds of them.
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