14 SAND LAKE AND SLOUGH LAKE. 



"for Hiven's sake take me home immediately, for I 

 feel that a place where such goings on happen is no 

 place for me." Smith harnessed up the rig and landed 

 him down to the depot in time to catch the train which 

 left an hour later. 



The next morning one of the boys who went to 

 Slough Lake found an old dead cow on its back, stuck 

 fast in the mud, close by the Irishman's boat, with its 

 legs sticking above the water about a foot. 



The death agonies of an old cow, stuck fast in the 

 mud in two feet of water, as seen in the dim twilight 

 by a superstitious Irishman, are apt to produce such 

 effects that Smith Wright ought to have congratulated 

 himself he didn't have a raving lunatic on his hands 

 instead of a badly frightened Irishman. 



