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gun, I drew my second trigger. Again a fierce plunge told 

 that the ball had not erred widely ; and this time, when he 

 again sank into his wonted posture, the deep crimson dye that 

 tinged the foam which curled about his graceful neck, as he 

 still struggled, feebly fleet, before his unrelenting foes, gave 

 token of a deadly wound. 



Six more strokes of the bending oars we shot alongside a 

 noose of rope was cast across his branching tines, the keen knife 

 flashed across his throat, and all was over ! We towed him to 

 the shore, where Harry and his comrades were awaiting us with 

 another victim to his unerring aim. We took both bucks and 

 all hands on board, pulled stoutly homeward, and found Tom 

 lamenting. 



Two deer, a buck of the first head, and a doe, had taken water 

 close beside him he had missed his first shot, and in toiling 

 over-hard to recover lost ground, had broken his oar, and been 

 compelled inactively to witness their escape. 



Three fat bucks made the total of the day's sport not one of 

 which had fallen to Tom's boasted musket. 



It needed all that Tim's best dinner, with lots of champagne 

 and Ferintosh, could do to restore the fat chap's equanimity ; 

 but he at last consoled himself, as we threw ourselves on the 

 lowly beds of the log hut, by swearing that by the etarnal devil 

 he'd beat us both at partridges to-morrow. 



DAY THE SIXTH. 



THE sun rose broad and bright in a firmament of that most 

 brilliant and transparent blue, which I have witnessed in no 

 other country than America, so pure, so cloudless, so immeasur- 

 ably distant as it seems from the beholder's eye ! There was not 

 a speck of cloud from east to west, from zenith to horizon ; not 

 a fleece of vapor on the mountain sides ; not a breath of air to 

 ruffle .the calm basin of the Greenwood lake. 



The rock-crowned, forest-mantled ridge, on the farther side of 

 the narrow sheet, was visible almost as distinctly through the 

 medium of the pure fresh atmosphere, as though it had been 

 gazed at through a telescope the hues of the innumerable 



