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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Bayfield Bulletin, 1966-06-17, Page 8BUSHY TALES by ART ELLIOTT AN, rs N .WN) icate., 1966 2-2 BE PATIENT. I KNOW YOU'RE ANXIO MR. GROUN SHOWILL UP. or at. IF HE SEES HIS SHADOW, WE HAVE SIX MORE WEEKS OF WIN TER. KITCHIGAMI [ TOURIST CAMP g • Family Picnics • Tenting • Cotta es Only 5 Miles North of Bayfield, Hwy. 21 Tel: 524-6494 GET EXPERT INSTALLATION FROM SPECIALISTS a large black bear hanging by the neck. The snare had work- ed. The timber toppled and hauled Mr. Bear up into a very poor position from which to eat garbage. For all I know, he's still dangling there, and that's about all the subject will bear. • BROWNIE'S DRIVE-IN THEATRE — CLINTON 2 Shows Nightly Come as Late as 11 p.m. and See a Complete Show. Box Office Opens at 8 o'clock First show starts at Dusk THURSDAY and FRIDAY June 16-17 THE ART OF LOVE Two nimble American rascals turn Paris on its ear I ! ! 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He stated flatly that as we had no rifle in camp, we'd have to snare the bear. This reminded me of the recipe for rabbit stew which starts out: "No. 1 — Catch a rabbit.'! Foolishly, I expressed some doubt that it could be done. Alex was not too happy to have his trapping ability questioned. I asked him if he was sure he could do it, and he said merely: "Sure I'm sure. Just wait until . after work tomorrow and you'll see." Alex is not one of the Indians you might meet on the trail who will hold up the right hand and say: "How". Alex knows how. Accordingly, after we got the dishes done after supper next day, we roceeded to our mol- ested garbage dump, equipped with our short light line-cutting axes, and under Alex's direct- ions, we set to work. We cut and trimmed 16 or 20 light pickets or poles and built the frame of a miniature wig- wam at the base of a big pop- lar. On the tree inside the wig- wam we spiked a chuk of bacon Side that had turned more than somewhat green, and on the ground inside the enclosure we dropped three decayed p or k chops.. "He won't be able to resist that," Alex 'stated, with a sat- isfied smile. Then we went back to work with the axes. We cut and trimmed a big spruce, fin- ishing up with a timber about 25 feet long and about 10 inches aerobs the butt. This we heaved up on its end beside two smal- ler spruces which grew only about five or six inches apart. About eight feet above the ground we :bailed a couple of crum. pieces, leaving a squar- ish aperture. Here Alex insert- ed a long length of half-inch rope, secured 'it to the big tim- ber, made a trigger out of a peg, carried the rope down to the little wigwam, and there looped a hangman's noose ar- ound the entrance and went to some trouble to conceal it with leafy 'branches and spruce sprigs. It was a ridiculous looking set-up, and I lost no time in saying so. I was dog tired from a sleepless night and plod- ding through about four miles of muskeg and labrador tea that day, dripping with sweat and pestered cranky by the blackflies. "That thing wouldn't fool t child of two," I said a little sharply, thinking that if this was some kind of practical joke, it had gone too far for me. "A bear is not a child of two", was all Alex said before he ambled back to camp, quite satisfied with himself and the crazy, looking snare. Every afternoon for three days we couldn't wait to get back to camp and take a quick look back behind the tent. No fresh sign of bear. "He's still full from the other night", Alex thought out loud. "But now that he knows where this garbage is, he'll always come back." We're Rescued Next morning about 7.45 when I was frying a luscious marmalade omelet, a Cessna 180 aircraft, equipped with pontoong landed on our lake and taxied tin to our shoreline. As soon as the pilot cut the engine, he slid out of the cockpit onto one of the pontoons and hollered: "Grab your shaving gear and enough to fill a small side bag, and we're going to get to hell out of here but fast." More than 200 forest fires were raging through the prov- ince at the time. We had seen :the red sunsets over Manitoba way, and seen the skies dark With smoke in the distance, noted the blood red and murky sunsets, but were unaware we were in danger. It all seemed so far away. Abandon Camp It developed that the Prov- incial government had banned all forest travel, commandeered all aircraft for firefighting and rescuing hundreds of Indian families, and we were ordered to abandon all gear and grub and clinib into the plane. This we did, but not before spitting the marmalade omelet . and what was left of the coffee with our new friend, the pilot. To make a long story even longer*, I must confess I never did see the bear in the trap. 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