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some barking at night. Nor were there any muskrats, 

 beavers, bears, raccoons, or 'possums seen. And only 

 one deer was sighted, a fat buck, which I shot, when 

 coming out on the morning of the second day of the 

 return trip. 



The second night we made camp at the crossing of a 

 brook, Henry and I being under a tent, while the other 

 men slept on the ground. With the end of the second 

 day's trip we had traveled thirty-three miles from the 

 railroad ; and we were all ready to go to sleep, which we 

 did before 7 : 30, as the following day's trip was to be 

 an especially hard one. 



So, with a big fire in front of the tent, we slept 

 soundly and well in spite of the fact that the night was 

 cold enough to make ice along the edges of the brook. 



