October 3rd, Ed Brown got up to the base cabin of his trap line with his winter's outfit. He hung an N. C. Company calendar on the wall and started marking off the days. October 8th, the hole into the other world opened. In the meantime, of course, Ed had not been idle. All summer the cabin had stood empty. He got his bedding, stove, and other cabin gear down from the cache and made the place livable. The mice were thick, a good fur sign, but a nuisance otherwise. Down in the cellar hole, when he went to clear it out for the new spud crop, he found.
