TRAPPER'S LIFE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 139, 16 June 1927, Page 11

TRAPPER'S LIFE

A DRAMATIC STORY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, 16th. May. A dramatic story of the Far North was recount- ■ at Pouee Coupe in the Peace Eiver country, when Morris Pacquette, a French-Canadian trapper, had a bullet removed from his shoulder. Pacquetto was making the round of Ins traphnes four miles from his cabin in the Hudson Hope district, Northern British Columbia. Pausing at a running stream, he bent down to take a ■drink. His revolver fell from its holster, exploded, and the bullet entered his body just above the heart, ploughing its way to the sho alder. Ho managed to crawl to his cabin, and lay there for three days, awaiting the return of his mate, who had gone out to the traplines in an opposite direction. In the meantime, a big grizzly took possession of the camp, and the wounded man had a fight on his hands every day. to keep the bear from entering th<> cabin. Had it not been for his dogs, ho said, he would never have succeeded. His partner returned and shot the bear. He conveyed his mate by dogteam to Hudson Hope. Pacquette was in a state of delirium. After first aid had. been rendered, they took the,trail again to Pouee Coupe, a total distance of 80 miles, where tho nearest hospital was. The patient is recovering.