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another moose that day, even should an opportunity occur, 

 we concluded to return to our shanty, on the lake below. 

 We, therefore, dressed our moose, and taking with us the 

 skin and hind quarters, started down stream to a late dinner 

 on Little Tupper's Lake. Indeed, there was a sort of neces- 

 sity for our doing BO. We had left our provisions there, 

 calculating to return in the afternoon, not having taken 

 with us even pepper or salt, wherewith to season the food 

 which, upon constraint, we might cook during our absence. 

 A few crackers, in the pockets of each, was all, in the pro- 

 vision line, that we had provided ourselves with, and though, 

 when we saw the moose-tracks in the sand, we had concluded 

 to rough it, for a single night, for the chance of securing 

 such rare game, yet having secured it, that part of our mis- 

 sion was accomplished, and we turned towards home. 



On our return to the lake, Spalding and myself rowed 

 across to the mouth of a cold brook, to procure a supply of 

 fresh trout, upon which, with our moose and bear-meat, to 

 dine. This we soon accomplished, and on our arrival home, 

 we found huge pieces of moose and bear roasting before a 

 blazing. fire. The meat was supported upon long sticks, one 

 end of which was sharpened, and the meat spitted upon it, 

 and the other thrust into the ground, in a slanting direction, 

 so as to bring the roasting pieces into a proper position 

 before the fire. The meat was removed occasionally, and 

 turned, until the roasting process was completed, and the i 

 served up on clean birch bark, just peeled from the trees, in 

 the place of platters. We had tin plates, knives, and forks, 



