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that it makes the wild more wild, while it 

 enhances culture and art. 



The end of the pond which we approached 

 was quite shoal, the stones rising above the 

 surface as in a summer brook, and every- 

 where showing marks of the noble game we 

 were in quest of, foot-prints, dung, and 

 cropped and uprooted lily-pads. After rest- 

 ing for a half hour, and replenishing our 

 game-pouches at the expense of the most re- 

 spectable frogs of the locality, we filed on 

 through the soft, resinous pine-woods, in- 

 tending to camp, near the other end of the 

 lake, where, the guide assured us, we should 

 find a hunter's cabin ready built. A half- 

 hour's march brought us to the locality, and 

 a most delightful one it was, so hospitable 

 and inviting that all the kindly and benefi- 

 cent influences of the woods must have 

 abided there. In a slight depression in the 

 woods, about one hundred yards from the 

 lake, though hidden from it for a hunter's 

 reasons, surrounded by a heavy growth of 

 birch, hemlock, and pine, with a lining of 

 balsam and fir, the rude cabin welcomed us. 

 It was of the approved style, three sides in- 

 closed, with a roof of bark and a bed of 

 boughs, and a rock in front that afforded a 



