was to take the team and haul stones, which we found
along the run and put up the fireplace. Considerable pains was taken
and we done a pretty good job, as we hoped to use this camp for a
number of seasons. After the fireplace was completed, we hung a door,
using hinges made of blocks of wood and boring auger holes through
one end. Shaping the other end on two of these eyes to drive in two
holes boring into the logs close to the door jams. The other two eyes
were flattened off and made long enough for door cleats as well as to
form a part of the door hinge. Now a rod was run through these eyes
or holes in these pieces. This formed a good, solid door hinge. Then
a door latch was made from a slat of wood, which worked on a pin in a
hole bored in one end of the slat and a hole bored through the door.
A small hole in the slat and a string tied to latch and run through a
hole in the door furnished the means of raising the latch. A loop for
the latch to work in and a catch on the door jam and the door was
complete.

We next put in the window and made a bunk or bedstead from small
poles and the hut was completed. I think we were about four days
doing the work including an hour or so each day spent in picking
huckleberries enough for our special need. Now as the camp was
completed, we began to search for a place where we could find berries
more plentiful than we had found them near camp. On the hillsides
facing the river, where there were barrens, we found more.

While searching for huckleberries we found a deerlick or salt log,
which the deer were working good. Bill said he guessed we had better
appropriate the loan of the lick for one night to our own use, and
see if we could not get some venison to take home with us as well as
huckleberries.

When the sun was about an hour high, we took our guns and went to the
salt log. There was no blind made to get in to watch them. We
selected two jack pines that stood near together and we each climbed
into a tree, breaking some of the boughs out that obstructed our view
in the direction of the lick and laid the boughs across some limbs to
sit on. We had scarcely got our seats fixed when I heard the crack of
a limb off to our left. I whispered to Bill and pointed in the
direction I had heard the breaking of the limb. Bill shook his head,
to indicate that he had not heard anything, but had hardly done so
when I saw Bill begin to cautiously shift his gun from the way it was
pointed and