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near cut and hunt through the woods and join 

 the camp at night, But they got lost and we 

 fired signal guns and built a big fire. Finally 

 they arrived long after night, tired. and weary 

 and almost exhausted. Whilst the men were 

 lost three wild geese flew over them. They fired 

 several shots and succeeded in bringing down 

 one. After hunting for it for some time they 

 found it had fallen in an old deserted well of 

 some hunter or trapper, perhaps the only one 

 around for miles. They brought it into camp, 

 that is the goose not the well, and we moralized 

 on the subject. They might try for one thous- 

 and years to kill a wild goose and have it fall 

 into that well again and not succeed. Now was 

 it Providence or Chance that governed in this 

 case? While 1 want to be a Christian and be- 

 lieve everything that is good and true I could 

 understand special Providence that (hear talked 

 so much about. In some cases a man a half 

 inch too far away is killed and another half an 

 inch another escapes. And by the least little 



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