In The Bush At The Wrong Time

Ryder

Oct.24

ELA

In the bush at the wrong time

Steven was a 17-year-old boy that lived in a small-town northern Manitoba called kuisiack. Steven always loved to go hunting and fishing and also enjoy going on hikes and such to enjoy wildlife.

He usually did most of these activitys with his dad as his mom passed away in a house fire.

Steven was not doing good in school he never was, but he didn’t mind trying in school, but he never had the brains to have good grades, but he was already on his last year of high school. Since he always tried in school and was never good enough to get good grades, he’s always tried to tell his dad that he wanted to drop out for many years, but his dad always said no and said that Steven would need an education if he wanted a bright future which is a pretty good point. His dad was a construction manager he was part time that and on the other half he usually was spending time with Steven, or he also was in a little bit of a businessman. Steven was home alone for 2 weeks while his dad was on the construction site. Steven was old enough to take care of himself, but he didn’t really like to hang out with many people besides a couple friends and his dad and family. His dad flew to the site 1 week ago. Steven’s routine was going to school, going fishing on the river which he usually did with his dad, then eat sleep repeat. His dad was on the way back from the job site and him and steven had a big plan for a moose hunt when his dad got back. His dad was almost over the part of the border where he was going to cross in between Saskatchewan and Manitoba. When the engine in the little plane broke down and caught on fire and the fire eventually got into the gas tube and the plane then caught on fire and was going down, the plane was just crossing the border. 911 showed up to the scene and it was too late stevens dad and the pilot ended up passing away from impact.

Steven was going to move in with his aunt Marie in a couple of weeks. His aunt was the one that had to tell him that his dad died. Which must’ve been pretty had to tell him that steven got half hid dads’ inheritance but didn’t really spend it on anything, but food and cloths people started to see that steven was sad. His aunt was coming in two days to pick him up so he could go live with her. One day goes by and steven calls the school and tells them he’s sick and can’t come to school. His aunt Marie was pulling into the driveway, she gets into the house to realize that Steven is gone. It turns out that steven was going to go rouge and live in Alaska, so he did. He took a whole bunch of hunting and fishing supplies he also took quite a bit of money and food to get him started in the bush. He was taking a private bush plane rental business and that is how he would get to his destination. He has arrived up to the spot which is actually where him and his dad went hunting and shot stevens first moose. There is a ton of snow on the ground which was no help for steven to get to a spot where he could set up his camp until he could build a cabin in a couple of months. His camp was just going to be quite a bit of logs piled up onto one log with a tarp under the logs to stay dry and also to be warm at night. Steven found the spot where he was going to be, it was right next to a river that wasn’t frozen over and no signs of bears near it. Steven was living off sausage that he had brought from home and just normal water in a bottle. Steven had decided that he was going to start to fish for his first meat because he found a nice spot where there was a beaver dam and it was too big for fish to jump over and there was a whole bunch of fish jumping in front of the dam trying to get over the dam and that is when Steven had found his fishing spot. It took him about a full day to cut down all the trees with his axe and build his fort which he was going to stay in until he built his cabin. Weeks went by and all that steven could eat was fish he couldn’t find any animals to shoot. He had started to build the base of his cabin.

He was planning on going for a moose hunt to around the same place where he had shot his first moose, so he had a big fish fry for food that he was going to bring along with him on the moose hunt. He was out their moose hunting out there for a week and had only seen cows which he wasn’t so desperate where he would shoot a mom moose that could possibly have babies. It came time for Steven to head back to camp unfortunately he was empty handed this time. Steven had gotten back to camp and was starting to build more of the cabin. He was out grabbing clay when he started to feel pretty sick. It didn’t take two long before he was back to normal and then he started to build up the walls of the cabin adding a fireplace made out of rocks in the corner of the cabin.

It started to get really bad to the point where he couldn’t eat anything without puking. He had imagined that it is most likely scurvy which he had probably got from lacking his fruits vegetables and vitamins. He didn’t have any way to get back or call anyone from home, he also couldn’t get his hands on any food but the meat which made him sicker. He packed up all his things inside his camp and had engraved his name and the date and year onto the side of the half built Cabin with the date next to it and also a note/letter saying ‘’If you find this My name is Steven little and I have come out here when I was 17 years old I am now 18 here in 1991. Please contact my auntie telling her that I am sorry and that I have died in a place where I am happy and plus, I will get to go see mom and dad call 273 981 2094 in kuisiack Northern Manitoba’’. A man named Markus goodmen found this letter and lived up to stevens last words and contacted stevens aunt back in kuisiack to tell her what had happened. Steven’s funeral was hosted right next to his dad’s tombstone and was barried side but side in between his mom and dad. The End.

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