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like a Hare; pursue with the steamer and that 

 will give the men in the boat a chance." 



Her undoing was in the discovery of her tactics. 

 Like Pat and the Flea, when the men picked her 

 up she was not there and reappeared rods away, 

 floating to the surface, with neck stretched along 

 the surface of the water, looking not unlike drift- 

 ing sea-weed. Why had we not noticed that she 

 always doubled back? We are only saved from 

 dying of mortification by the fact that doughty 

 Colonel H., direct from Washington, who took 

 full command in the absence of our captain, in 

 the rescue party, shouting wise saws and modern 

 instances, also failed to notice that "she doubled 

 like a Hare." The length of her swim under 

 water was limited by the time she could get along 

 without breathing, and when she came up beside 

 the rowboat, she allowed herself to be gathered 

 in without a struggle. I took her from Jim, our 

 mighty hunter, and tied her legs with my pocket- 

 handkerchief and she lay at my feet upon the 

 deck, still without a struggle, biding her time. 



Half the pleasure of hunting is showing off the 

 result of the chase to jealous enemies and admir- 

 ing friends alike, and on my return to the hotel 

 I put my Goose down upon the lawn that every- 

 one might have a chance to admire us. Quick as 

 a flash, the time she had been biding, arrived, 



