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over to the nearest island, and swimming over himself, 

 beat up and down the shore till he struck the track, 

 which he swiftly followed over to the other side. 

 "Where it entered the water he again struck out, and 

 reaching the main land, coursed up and down till he 

 again took the trail, and soon his sharp, quick cry rang 

 up the heart of the mountain. His owner, however, 

 said, when he came up, that it would be of no use to 

 wait, for the deer would not come back, but go to some 

 other sheet of water. " But," said I, " what will become 

 of your dog?" "Oh," he replied, "he will be back 

 to-night or to-morrow." As we were rowing home I 

 asked him how many deer he and his friend had killed 

 during the year. " Well, about two hundred ; the 

 wolves were so thick that they drove them away." 



I had heard much of Blue Mountain Lake, and 

 determined to visit it. Not having our tent with us, 

 and not wishing to be lumbered with our camp baggage, 

 we determined to go and return the same day. But 

 this would be impossible unless we went to the last 

 clearing in our route, the night before, and took an early 

 start from it. So, carrying our boats across to Eaquette 

 Lake late in the afternoon, we started for " Beach's 

 Clearing." (It will be remembered that in a former 



