OUR RETURN TO THE HOME CAMP 101 



fell. When Henry came up it didn't take long to dress 

 the deer and carry it to the wagon. 



That night it was hung up and a smudge fire was 

 built, over which the carcass was smoked for a couple 

 of hours and then sprinkled with pepper to keep off 

 the blow-flies. This deer I shipped whole to Philadel- 

 phia, where it arrived four days after, in splendid con- 

 dition. 



After killing the deer we came to Hurd Lake, where 

 we had seen a large cow moose on the journey " in." 

 Henry had heard of a fine dead-w r ater two and a half 

 miles from this lake that he thought we ought to visit. 

 A high ridge had to be crossed, and then we came 

 down to the water again on the other side of it. We 

 found the dead-water, and it was a beautifully secluded 

 spot. While Henry tried his birch-bark call, I was 

 much interested in watching an apparent migration of 

 spiders across a wide pool. 



A long, slender piece of spider's silk would come 

 floating by, away up in the air with a spider at the 

 bottom of it, and this would be followed by so many 

 others that it seemed they must be acting in concert. 



We spent a half hour or more at this spot, then 

 we crossed the ridge again and crept as silently as 

 possible to Hurd Lake. Here we seated ourselves at 

 the leeward end of the lake and watched and waited. 



In a very few minutes we heard a branch break on 

 the far side of the lake, and soon a calf moose stepped 



