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in' sheriffs and deputy-sheriffs over their shoul- 

 ders, but takin' in all the circumstances, that there 

 shot o' mine was pretty mighty good. That slip- 

 pery log, a heavy gun and the deer a hundred yards 

 off with just his head in view — say, I don't believe 

 there's any o' them Muskoka chaps could have 

 done that job." 



FOLKS IS MIGHTY UNBELIEVIN' 



"I could tell you of a few other little affairs 

 I've had in the woods, but — well, as like as not 

 some interferin' neighbours o' mine might be say- 

 in', there's that Old Jim he's forever tellin' 



them huntin' lies o' his'n. Folks is mighty un- 

 believin' now, anyway. 'Tain't like it used to be 

 neither in believin' nor huntin'," snapped out the 

 Old-timer. 



