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HUNTING DEER WITH JACKS — DESCRIPTION OF A " JACK." 

 — A " SLUE"— QUEER CHALLENGE FROM A NIGHT 

 SENTINEL — FLOATING UP THE " SLUE" — SINGULAR 

 ENCOUNTER WITH AN INDIAN AT MIDNIGHT — RETURN 

 WITHOUT DEER — REASONS FOR ILL-LUCK. 



Eaquette Eiver, July. 



Dear H : 



Having wasted too much time, yesterday, in pad- 

 dling down the Saranac for deer, we found we should 

 not have time to reach Big Tupper's Lake and pitch our 

 camp before dark, so, coming to another clearing, we 

 concluded to stop there over night, and in the evening 

 go after deer with "jacks." A jack consists of a box 

 of wood or tin, or a piece of spruce bark, a foot long, 

 closed at the ends and open and flaring in front. This 

 is nailed upright on a stick of wood some four feet long, 

 which is made to stand up in the bow of the boat. 



