Show STUDENT LIFE 232 the outlaws and the joy that came to him when Jerry moved a few leaves ami drew forth the treasure can he better imagined than described The next morning soon after business commenced in I’hoenix two lads entered one of the most prominent hanks in the city and made a large deposit A posse was immediately organized to search for the outlaws which after several days search succeeded in capturing “Xat” and two of his accomplices The other was never seen or IV IV G heard of afterward Icebound Uncle Hal is a Canadian trader and trapper and owns a small ranch near Selkirk Manitoba Besides cattle sheep goats and horses he has a small band of moose The income from his ranch affords him an independent living and for pastime during the winter he often makes a trip and 'sometimes two or three up into the Lake Winnipeg district trapping furs and trading with the natives The winter I was sixteen I spent with him and accompanied him on ncarlv two of th'' ' spring and we were returning from the last trip The hides and camp outfit we left at a trading post on the river and from there they would he shipped as soon as the ice broke up e left the post on snow shoes with a four days’ journey between us and home The second day out we came to a lake which we had crossed on the ice when we were on our way up but now the ice had melted and a large body of water To go lay directly in our path around this lake meant an extra day and a tedious and dangerous journey My uncle was well acwith the country and the quainted customs of the natives so we followed back for a short distance along the shore of the lake to where the natives had had a summer camp After considerable digging around in the deep snow we uncovered a birch-bar- k canoe pushed it out across the ice and made preparations to cross the lake This was early in the forenoon and uncle said he thought we could row across in a few hours but shortly after noon it grew intensely cold a northwesterly breeze rose to a lively gale snow fell in gusts at first but soon came so thick and fast that we could not see a canoe’s length ahead The only thing to do was to spread our blankets and roll up in them The next morning at davbreak my uncle woke me I looked out across the thin sheet of ice that had formed after the storm calmed then at my uncle who began to wear a serious look Our supplies consisted of half a can of beans and a few crackers The sheet of ice about two hundred yards wide between us and the shore was not strong enough for us to walk on |