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dry electric battery at the other. By pressing a 

 ring a fair sized light is produced. Carrying this in 

 one hand to light my path, and with my rifle in the 

 other, I walked leisurely along. As I approached a 

 clump of high swale grass that lay ahead of me, my 

 light flashed along the path and lit upon a deer that 

 stood in the middle of the clump. She straightened 

 herself up and gazed at the light with wondering 

 eyes, as if the unwonted sight had hypnotized her. 

 She allowed me to approach within a few feet of her, 

 and as she looked in awe at the light, I looked in 

 wonder at its mystic reflection from her orbs of 

 vision — a green, weird glow that fascinated me. 

 Thus we stood gazing at each other for five minutes 

 or more ; then shifting the hypnotizing rays from her 

 eyes I bade her a loving good-night, and, with a 

 laugh at the quickness with which she bounded into 

 the darkness, I trudged on my way. 



When Thoreau, the naturalist, came down this 

 piece of river in 1853, he found two Indians near the 

 North East Carry camping out and drying and 

 smoking moose meat for their winter's food. He 

 spent a night with them. They had killed twenty 

 moose, mostly cows, and were curing the hides as 

 well as smoking and drying the meat. In his trip 

 down the river he saw «ne moose, which his com- 

 panion killed, but no deer. He passed down again in 

 1857, taking the Allagash River and lake in his trip, 



