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madea great flourish, possibly, he imagined then-'d been 

 ;i new style of moon invented for specially dark nights and 

 that this was the way it generally rose. perhaps, however, 

 he was ju-l da/:-d and didn't imagine niueh of anything. 

 At all evenK just the minute I thought I was near enough 

 to put a sure shot in, I shook the boat, just a Iritle, and 

 Horace stopped pax Idling; I sighted along old "Sure 

 Death " and bla/.ed away. 



"My ! whit a splashing and dashing there wa~' A- bid 

 luck would have it, the gun kicked like fury, when I pulled 

 it oil', and somehow (lie jack was knocked over and t he 

 liirht put out. Where the candle went to. I don't know. 

 Horace hail another piece in his pocket, and we lighted 

 that, and then went hunting for OUT deer. I knew it was 

 ours, fa -I enough, by the kind of racket he made in tin- 

 water, lie had managed to get ashore, hut we tracked 

 him four or live rods and found him. and Horace cut hi- 

 throat. Then we dragged him into the boat, came back 

 to the landing, and started through the woods. .Just then 

 it began to rain. \Ve were fairly walled up in the darkness, 

 and the rain just poured. We managed to keep our candle 

 burning about a quarter of the time, and the other three 

 quarters we were plunging into holes, over rocks and bogs, 

 in the dark; and Horace was 'most as dead as the deer. 

 while I carried the gun and the jack, and was the worst 

 done for man you ever saw. But I got my buck! and 

 there he is! and if you fellows are not grateful for the ven 

 ison he'll make, you go, next time. My story's done." 



"For all such blessings may we be duly thankful !" sono 

 rously responded the Professor. 



