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what manner of thing it was; just in time 

 they spied the .30-30 being produced for ac- 

 tion, and before any damage could be at- 

 tempted, they were on the wing and out of 

 harm's way. Quite a few geese I was told 

 could be killed by using a dog for a decoy. 

 The dog, trained to walk up and down the 

 shore for the purpose, attracts the geese, who 

 will come close up to him and hiss at him; 

 when they are shot by the concealed nimrod. 

 We had been packing for two days when we 

 reached the north end of the portage and 

 pitched camp. In spite of the distance of the 

 portage being but six miles, it was about the 

 hardest six-mile portage, considering the 

 amount of the outfit, for two to make that 

 could well be experienced ; the most difficult of 

 the equipment to carry through the brush, 

 timber, and snow being the Peterboro: but 

 the irksomeness of the task was lightened by 

 mental and verbal anticipations of the sport 

 in waiting for us on the " happy hunting 

 ground " beyond. Next, a journey of twenty 

 miles with the current, without any interesting 

 incident, brought us to a small island in the 



