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On my way home I stopped at the cabin of "Dutch John" , a crabbid old hermit, who gave me the skulls of a wolf & wild cat & the skin of a great gray owl & told me many interesting things about wolves & deer & wild things. His cabin & clearing are back across a tamarack swamp from the road & he puts salt licks out beyond his potato patch to keep the deer away from the house. They came to his woodpile for salty slops thrown out & keep him awake nights tramping over his board doorsteps & pawing around the house.
He had 2 great gray owls nailed to a tree & says they stay all the year. Showed me a flying squirrel skin, the big one.
Photographed beaver & beaver & muskrat houses on the way home. 20 miles, tired.