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water beaten almost to a foam. It happened to strike 

 me as exceedingly comical; but although nearly ready to 

 explode with laughter, I pulled the trigger. An awful 

 roar, as of a park of artillery, burst and rolled down the 

 river and over the forest, shattering the impressive stillness 

 of the night into a thousand echoes. The roar was follow- 

 ed by a silence almost as awful. When everything was 

 hushed again, \vc listened. The crashing through the 

 trees told of the Might of our game, but it might be wound- 

 ed; then the noi-c ceased, in a moment the deer stamped 

 like a sheep and " whistled," and lied away to the moun- 

 tains. 



He-loading the gun and lighting and adjusting on my 

 head the "jack" that we had borrowed of our prospective 

 hosts, we a -rain silently went on down the windings of the 

 forest lined or alder fringed river as before, peering around 

 every point and into every nook and cove, but seeing noth- 

 ing. Once, we heard a light rustle and delicate footsteps 

 near the river bank, but the thick alders effectually con- 

 cealed the W.-IIT deer, he stopped, we stopped, each listened 

 for the other, and then he stealthily crept away. Still we 

 threw the light along the banks on our silent way, search- 

 ing for the two "globes of lire," but saw them not. 



At length, at nearly ten o'clock, dreadfully tired and 

 huiiLirv, we reached the camp of our new friends, ate a 

 sumptuous supper provided from their ample supplies and 

 my basket .f trout, and then rolling up in my blanket under 

 the bark roof, while I he tire at my feet blazed brightly, I 



went to sleep forthwith. 



