OR, THE LAKE LANDS OF CANADA. 



CHAPTER III. 



GRAND FISHING EXCURSION WATTE'S CREEK VISITED BY THE GOVERNOR AND 

 ESCULAPIUS THEIR RETURN AND RECEPTION AT CAMP GRAND DEER-HUNT, 

 LED BY DR. POKORNEY CHIEF JOHN AND HIS ASSISTANTS ARE RELIEVED FROM 

 DUTY AND GO TO THE REAR IN DISGRACE DR. POKORNEY AND OTHER AS- 

 SISTANTS. 



T was about four o'clock in the morning 

 when the Governor emerged from his 

 unsavory sleeping-apartment with a hag- 

 gard face and despondent heart. I had 

 slept soundly during the greater part of 

 the night ; was now greatly refreshed and ready 

 to engage with him in conversation. The Gov- 

 ernor, when he discovered that I was awake, 

 remarked, " I have never spent a more miserable 

 night ; the atmosphere of the cabin is stifling. I 

 am sick this morning. I think we had better 

 start for home ; I have had enough of this 

 sort of sport." I then revealed to him the 

 fact that had been confided to me by Jim. I 

 spoke to him of the fine trout-fishing which 

 could be had in Watte's Creek. He seemed, 

 at first, somewhat incredulous in regard to 

 the statements made to me on the previous 

 J* day by Jim, but finally the real motives 



