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things that Horace will U'll you about. You can go out 

 to-day, and come back to-morrow." 



The morning's lisliing was very successful. the- trout 

 themselves having apparently shared in the general Mon- 

 day morning enthusiasm, and almost gleefully responding 

 to the fisherman's call. On the whole. Monday was a 

 triumph. 



On the following day (Jeorge returned, and gaunt famine 

 in the form of short -upplies departed by the shortest 

 trail to some less fortunate camp. A single letter had 

 found its wa\ Jo us, and that, so far as news of the outer 

 world went, was read aloud to the whole party. 



There was riile-shootinir at a lanjvi. this day; and the 

 jHtfnid was awarded to "the Lemonader," with tin -at u'ood 

 nature, and a tribute to the ner\ e-tead\ ini;' effects of the 

 Victor'* chosen beverage. 



Tin- Neophyte had. lorda\s. wearied his brain wit h plans 

 for Capturing some of the rabbit family alive. He longed 

 for the cheering and humanizing influences of a menagerie. 

 The care of a dumb beast, he thought, would exert a 

 lihrrali/ing inlluence on the entire parly of lish slayers. 

 This day he devoted his tines! talents to the construction 

 of two " figure I " traps, with which he was wont in boy- 

 hood to entrap the confiding wood-chuck, alas! some 

 times Jo his discomfiture, capturing (a (Jreek present) the 

 odor-bearing skunk. In this contest with rabbit wit and 

 cunning, he -.Anally failed. The cracker box wastoosmall, 

 the tub. ditto, and hairs, not hares, were the net result. 

 Besides chipmunks, villainous little thieves! were the 



