With the idea of returning to Wisconsin I made plans for my movements.

I purchased a good outfit of steel traps of several kinds and sizes, thirty or forty in all, made me a pine chest, with a false bottom to separate the traps from my clothing when it was packed in traveling order, the clothes at the top.

My former experience had taught me not to expect to get work there during winter, but I was pretty sure something could be earned by trapping and hunting at this season, and in summer I was pretty sure of something to do.

I had about forty dollars to travel on this time, and quite a stock of experience.

The second parting from home was not so hard as the first one.