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out of the section of country lying between the High Falls and the 

 Keminiskeek Lake, a distance of sixty miles in length, and ten miles 

 from each side of the river. The deer began gradually to reappear 

 there in 1844, and when they returned to their old haunts along " The 

 Hidden River," the wolves followed them to their ancient habitat. 

 For many years deer have been abundant in the Madawaska region. 



The old " Stony Swamp," west of Bell's Corners on the Richmond 

 Road, was at one time, much infested by wolves, on account of its hav- 

 ing been a famous fastness for deer. The wolves of that section did 

 considerable damage to the flocks of farmers in the neighborhood. 



In connection with this well known old road, I remember an inci- 

 dent which took place in the year 1830. It may not be known to 

 everyone that at that early period in the history of the County of Car- 

 leton, oxen were chiefly used for all purposes of draught and travel by 

 the farmers of that day, simply because they had no horses. Farm pro- 

 duce was then drawn to Bytown Market on ox sleighs, and then, as 

 now, the journey to the market was performed partly in the night. 



One clear moonlight night a farmer from the westerly part of the 

 Township of Nepean, was driving his oxen through the lonely windings 

 of the road in the Stony Swamp. The season was winter. He had a 

 small dog with him which was running along a short distance in front 

 of the team. Suddenly he heard a piteous howl, and on looking in the 

 direction of the sound, he saw an enormous wolf darting away through 

 the trees with the struggling dog in his mouth. 



During the first few years of the early settlement of Hull, wolves 

 were very numerous and destructive in that neighborhood. They had 

 killed many sheep, and had also very much disturbed the minds of 

 timid people. Something decisive had to be done to abate the nuisance. 

 A hunter set a trap and succeeded in catching one of the offenders. He 

 skinned part of his head and sides, and fastened a broad red collar, to 

 which was attached a bell, around his neck. The rather cruelly treated 

 wolf was then liberated, and according to the story, wolves became 

 scarce in the neighborhood of Hull for a number of years. 



In the year 1839, in the beautiful month of October, when the 

 maple trees, the gorgeous sentinels of earth, seem to wear tire elegant 

 livery of heaven, I was out one morning duck shooting on the River 



