Nielsen and Copple were the only ones that day who could saw wholly through the thick log without resting.

Copple said three minutes was good time to saw a four-foot log in two pieces.

And the next morning I started out on foot with Copple.

I considered Copple an addition to my long list of outdoor acquaintances in the west, and believed him a worthy partner for Nielsen.

Altogether his had been an adventurous life; and as Doyle had been a mine of memories for me so would Copple be a mine of information.

Copple was inclined to be loquaciousa trait that ordinarily was rather distasteful to me, but in his case would be an advantage.

Copple was so interesting that I must have passed the place where R.C. and I had come down into the canyon; at any rate I missed it, and we went on farther.

Copple liked this too.

I made note of the significant fact that as soon as we began to hunt Copple became silent.

"Copple, is that a sheep?"

Copple fired, hitting right under his nose as he alighted.

My second shot went over him, and Copple's hit between his legs.

I got a shot before Copple saw them.

Upon my return to Copple I found he had collected his two turkeys, both shot in the neck in the same place.

Copple had no turkey-caller, but he clucked anyhow.

Copple continued to call.

It was not a very long shot, and I, scorning to do less than Copple, tried to emulate him, and aimed at the neck of the gobbler.

Copple tried to teach me how to tell the age of turkeys from their feet, a lesson I did not think I would assimilate in one hunting season.

One afternoon Copple, R.C., and I went as far as the east side of Gentry Canyon and worked down.

Copple whispered: "Yearlin' buck.

We scouted around together for an hour, then R.C. and Copple started off on a wide detour, leaving me at a stand in the hope they might drive some turkeys my way.

Copple said he had been awakened twice at night by skunks biting the noses of his companions in camp.

Copple said: "This is a deer day.

Here Copple said was a place for deer to graze.

Copple sat down on a log, and I took a seat beside him to the left.