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THE ADIRONDACK. 



lowed only by its own echo. Mitchell then dis- 

 charged his, and after listening anxiously awhile, we 

 heard a shot far up the river. Soon after, "bang, 

 bang," went two more guns in the same direction. 

 The poor fellow had heard our shots, and fearing we 

 might not hear his in return, and hence take a 

 wrong direction in pursuit of him, just stood, and 

 loaded and fired as fast as he could. When we 

 found him he was as pale as marble, and looked like 

 one who had been in a state of complete bewilderment. 

 On leaving us, instead of going down stream as he 

 should have done, he turned directly up. After 

 awhile he came out on the bank of, to him, a strange 

 river. As it was on the wrong side to be the one we 

 had floated down, he thought he must have crossed 

 over to another, but finally concluded it would be the 

 safest course to retrace his steps. This he was doing 

 to the best of his ability when he heard our rifle shots. 

 "We scolded him for his stupidity in thus causing us 

 alarm and delay, which, he very coolly remarked was 

 neither very just nor sensible, and then trudged on. 



One gets lost in the woods when he least expects it. 

 Awhile ago, a man from the settlements, a hunter, 

 too, left the shores of Long Lake, with a dog to 



