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and flings him upon the ice, to flap about for 

 d short time before becoming frozen as hard as a 

 board, and so he goes on until a shout from Groves 

 warns him that if he expects to find any venison 

 in the pan he had better hurry back. Fish arc 

 exceedingly plentiful in the Hudson Bay Territory, 

 and Lord Milton and Doctor Cheadle mention the 

 following curious circumstance : — " The lake was 

 about half a mile in length, and of nearly equal 

 breadth, but of no great depth. The water had 

 seemingly frozen to the bottom, except at one end, 

 where a spring bubbled up, and a hole of about a 

 yard in diameter existed in the covering of ice, 

 which was there only a few inches thick. I'he 

 water in this hole was crowded with myriads of 

 small fish, most of them not much larger than a 

 man's finger, and so closely packed that they could 

 not move freely. On thrusting in an arm, it seemed 

 hke plunging it into a mass of thick stirabout. 

 The snow was beaten down all round hard and 

 level as a road, by the numbers of anim.als which 

 flocked to the Lenten feast. Tracks converged 

 from every side. Here were the foot-prints of the 

 cross or silver fox, delicately impressed in the snow 

 as he trotted daintily along with light and airy 

 tread ; the rough marks of the clumsier fisher ; the 

 clear, sharply defined track of the active mink : 



