Hunters and Trappers + 

Two hunters near to Hudson Bay, + 

Their names John Grant and Tom McKay, + 

Their skill and courage naught could daunt, + 

The boldest one perhaps was Grant. + 

The winter was their busy time, + 

When all was snow and frost and rime, + 

It paid best then to pull trigger, + 

For then furs were better thicker. + 

While setting trap Grant cut through boot + 

And quick the blood gushed from his foot, + 

The horrid scene, now who can paint, + 

For loss of blood soon makes him faint. + 

But his kind partner Tom McKay + 

The rush of blood he tried to stay, + 

And when its flow did somewhat slack + 

He carried him upon his back. + 

As homeward he doth slowly go, + 

A track of blood is o’er the snow, + 

But long and weary is the way + 

And soon exhausted is McKay. + 

He feels assistance he doth want, + 

For to rescue his dear friend Grant, + 

He stood him up against a tree + 

While the blood yet flowed quite free. + 

Now wolves had visited the trap + 

And blood from snow they eager lap, + 

Then tracked poor Grant, for on the snow + 

The blood in heavy drops did flow. + 

He soon got help, then John McKay + 

Doth hurry back without delay, + 

And what a sight then met their gaze + 

Filled them with horror and amaze. + 

The sight their minds will ever haunt, + 

Mangled by wolves was their friend Grant, + 

But round him several wolves were slain + 

With bullet holes right through their brain. + 

For he had fought hard for his life, + 

And some he slew with hunting knife, + 

And he is still quite surrounded, + 

While fierce brutes are badly wounded. + 

Now clubs doth soon dash out their brains + 

And then they gather Grant’s remains, + 

They cut two saplings both same size, + 

With twigs they lace them acrosswise. + 

So it then made for the poor dead + 

A good soft and pliable bed, + 

Now to his home remains they bear, + 

Where his poor wife is in despair. + 