human
Why, about that cabin the old guide Jerry Kane told us was on the shore of the lake. It'll save us building one, you know, if it's in any kind of a decent condition,
gpt
Yes, that's a fact, Phil himself remarked;
human
I've been thinking so right along. I only hope we won't find some fishermen camped in it. Kane said that once in a long while some guide took a party over to Surprise; but that the tramp was so hard few gentlemen cared to try for it. There are lakes all around that offer just about as good fishing.
gpt
I should think there'd be some pretty fine hunting around up here, remarked Ethan.
human
I've noticed quite a few signs of deer, and that was certainly the track of a big moose we saw. I'd like to run across one of that stripe. Never saw a wild moose in all my life.
gpt
I wouldn't be surprised if some of us do meet one while we roam the woods around the little lake, Phil told him.
human
If I'm that lucky I want to take a picture of the beast, to add to my collection.
gpt
And I reckon, now, suggested X-Ray,
human
Well, you know it's a sort of hobby of mine, and I've got all the apparatus for taking flashlight pictures along with me. I started in to the business just to kill time; but let me tell you it grows on a fellow like everything. I'm something of a hunter myself, but this shooting with a camera beats anything else all hollow. Besides, you get your game, and yet don't injure it, which is the best of all.
gpt
But your pelts don't bring you in the hard cash, Phil, like mine do, he went on to say, with a touch of genuine pride in his voice.
human
S'pose now I'd just snapped off that black fox's picture instead of getting his paw in my steel Newhouse trap--it might have been all very well, but I'd be several hundred dollars shy right now.