XII. 



Thb Law of the Woods — Bio Clear Pond. — A Chase ATiIft 

 A Deer. — A Moose Path. 



At evening we returned to our shantee, witli a 

 supply of trout, and a small deer that we had shot. 

 "We found Shack watching his charge, and mighty 

 glad he was to see us too. Like us, he relished his 

 supper that night. 



" Tucker," said I, as we sat smoking our pipes 

 after supper, and listening to the hooting of the owls, 

 and the song of the whip-poor-will, ''do you know 

 that we have been breaking the law, and incurring a 

 heavy penalty, by the killing of the deer, upon which 

 we have been supping ?" 



'* Squire," said he, " I've hearn tell of such a thing, 

 and suppose it's so, but I never read the law, and 

 shouldn't regard it much if I had. Not that I believe 



