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quarrelsome or contrary, even when a shade over the line of 

 strict sobriety. He is a great, strong, square-shouldered, 

 big-breasted, good-natured specimen of the genus homo, a 

 giant in physical strength, and were I a wolf, I would prefer 

 letting him alone to any man in these parts. When he gets 

 just the least "grain "shiny" (and he never gets beyond 

 that), and his oar goes a little wrong, or a twig brushes 

 him ungently, or his seat gets a little hard, he will express 

 his sense of its improper deportment by incontinently damn- 

 ing its eyes, and so forth, as if it were a sentient thing, and 

 undestood all his profane denunciations ; but with all this, 

 MARK never forgets to be respectful, and, in his way, cour- 

 teous to his employers. He has, moreover, a sharp, clear 

 eye in his head, and can see a deer, or any other game, as 

 quick, and shoot it as far as the best, and has as good a 

 knowledge of where they are to be found, as any man in 

 these woods." 



" Well," continued Martin, as he lighted his pipe by dip- 

 ping it into the embers and scooping up a small coal; " Well, 

 MARK SHUFF and a friend of his by the name of Westcott, 

 had a shanty one winter over on Tupper's Lake ; they were 

 trappin' martin, and mink, and muskrat, and wolves, when 

 they could get one. They shantied on the outlet, just at 

 the foot of the lake, below the high rocky bluff round which 

 the little bay, there sweeps. There wasn't any house then 

 nearer than Harriets Town, down by the Lower Saranac ; but 

 there was a company of lumbermen having a shanty up 

 towards the head of the lake, near where the Bog River 



