2 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



it seven miles to our intended camping- 

 grounds. 



Having sent our team back to civilization, 

 we proceeded to make a sharp-peaked tent, 

 and while Bob and I were getting the forked 

 uprights and lean-tos, Jack was stripping the 

 large white birch of their rain-proof bark. It 

 was not long before it was up and covered, 

 and such a rain-proof palace as we had might 

 well be envied by the king, if in the woods on 

 a similar errand. For bedding we used small 

 hemlock and spruce boughs. These, laid in 

 consecutive rows, made a bed good enough to 

 boast of. After getting a supply of wood for 

 the night, we loaded our smooth-bores with an 

 ounce of lead in each, and started for the 

 calling-ground, three quarters of a mile dis- 

 tant a meadow three hundred yards wide 

 and half a mile long. Situated between our 

 camp and it was a lake known as " Long 

 Lake," containing 300 acres of water, from 

 which flowed a heavy, deep stream into Broad 

 Kiver. During the afternoon we had con- 

 stantly heard the quacking of duck, so we 

 approached the lake very cautiously, and 

 beheld hundreds of " blue-wings " feeding; 



