CHAPTER XIV. 



A DEEE TRAPPED THE RESULT OF A COMBAT A QUESTION 



OF MENTAL PHILOSOPHY DISCUSSED. 



WE returned the next day to our camping ground. On 

 the " Lower Chain of Ponds," we found our pioneer and his 

 goods all safe, no visitors having passed that way in our 

 absence. Smith knocked over a deer on our passage down. 

 I have said that just above our camp was a dam. It was 

 made in this wise: first, great logs were laid up, across the 

 stream, in the same fashion as the side of a log house, to 

 the height of about twelve feet, properly secured, and upon 

 these, other and smaller logs were laid, side by side, trans- 

 versely, and sloping up the stream at an angle of forty-five 

 degrees, like one side of the roof of a house. These long, 

 slender logs, reached out over and beyond those that were 

 laid up across the stream, the lower part covered with 

 brush, and then with earth, so as to make a tight dam, the 

 upper ends, even when the dam was full, extending several 

 feet above the top water line. These logs, or perhaps they 



