CRUST AND LAKE HUNTING. 517 



sure to see you first, and then you only get whistled at by 

 them for your pains ! 



So that, after trying every other mode of summer and fall 

 hunting, you are compelled to fall back upon the lakes at 

 last. Round Lake and Pleasant used to be famous for this 

 hunt, but they have fallen greatly into disrepute now ; though 

 it is still very easy any warm morning to drive a deer into 

 this end of Lake Pleasant, as I have found by repeated 

 experiments. 



However, there are other lakes at hand where the sport 

 is much more exciting and sure. Whittaker Lake is now 

 more resorted to, and that, too, with more surprising success, 

 than any other nearer than Louis Lake. It always has been, 

 and must continue, so long as there are any deer in the 

 country, to be the favorite place of refuge for them, on account 

 of its peculiar conformation. Its two islands, and the many 

 narrow coves for which it is peculiar, offer many facilities 

 for ready escape, by losing the dogs. In this hunt there 

 should generally be at least two boats on the lake. This 

 is particularly necessary at Whittaker, where there were 

 formerly two boats. To give some idea of the method of. 

 conducting this hunt, practiced by the natives here, each 

 of whom is a good oarsman of course, I will give an outline 

 of what three men accomplished in a single day's hunt. 



Three is the proper number to act without mutual embar- 

 rassment, two to man the boats and one to "put out" the 

 dogs. This party had two dogs, one of which was remarkably 

 sagacious and well trained. They shanteed on the shore 

 the over night, and the dogs were put out by sunrise in 

 the morning. 



The two boatmen, or rather one in a boat and the other in 

 a small canoe, took position ; the boat hid in the grass of the 

 marsh at one end, and the canoe under the alders at the 

 point of one of the islands. In a very short time a large 

 buck came splashing through the marsh in a terrible panic. 



