CHAPTER XXVIII. 



Our second week of sport opened with ;i deer-hunt, — 

 which it is iillowabh' to report, since we had onl)' theliunt. 

 We reasoned well, I think, that tishermen should not live 

 by trout and jiork aUuie, but that a little venison now and 

 then is relishe(rb\- the ti sin' est of nun. ]Men and oiiides 

 were sent out upon the lake and ordered lo take sta- 

 tions at various designated points of land at which the 

 deer were likely to take to the water. There we awaited 

 the now faint and then risinu' and sAvellinsi' notes of the 

 hound, the rustle throuuh the leaves and branches, and the 

 jiluniie of the tleet deer into the lake. My g-uide and I 

 waited and louniicd on a rock; watched the gulls wheeling 

 about their nests on Gull Island; listened, and heard no 

 sound but the voice of the loon. One by one the boats 

 returned to camp, without a shot. The whimpering and 

 disappointed hound was picked up on the opposite shore of 

 the bay and taken into one of the boats and brought iu. 

 And then we phinned new^ ventures for the day. 



1 had partially engaged with three of our party, succes- 

 sively, to go up tlie Oswegatchie river, above the lake, for 

 two or three days. But the story of Grass River was too 

 fresh in their minds for the fair consideration of an expedi- 

 tion, the glories of which were vouched for by the word of 

 our guides alone. However, the spirit of the great Alex- 



