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: nd of mine who lives in Winnipeg. ||, ; . , ,n H -> the 

 scenery AH U-in^ exceedingly tiiu-, and tin- sjmrt along 

 l.anks of the rivi-r an.l amongst tin- numerous islands is . 

 good. HIT.- In- has sin it l-ai i smaller animals 



which now adorn hi.s museum in \Vinnij>eg. 



I'.T fifty niilt-s we IHUSN through a lake 



listrict. Tli.- hikes are all wo* KM!, with numerous rocky 

 islands, tin- same charact.-r as the Lake of tin- NY.**!- A 

 passing Whitemouth river tin- railway Irav.-s th- biun-ntides 

 and sti'ik.-^ through swampy w.mds. tin- c'.iintry llatt-ns nut 

 ami gradually a.s.sunn-s th- charact. i i->t ics of the prairi.-. In 

 the vicinity ,ni- and Momuoutli stiiti>ns the forests 



Abound with gVM, and it is an t-xcellent CMUII try for Moose, 

 the ir n . a t-st <>t' Canadian de.-r. lilack U-ai-s an- also num. -r- 

 and I saw -.\.ral alive in Winniji.-^ that had been 

 captured in these forests. My Winnipeg friend was 

 slnnitin^ liirds in the woods when he suddenly came across a 

 couple of hear cul's a few day old; they were huddled tir,.; 

 on the in-Min,,) under some hushes. As the old bear was no- 

 where to be seen, and had evidently gone out in search of 

 food, he decided to take the cul.s alonir with him, and taking 

 one under each arm he turned hack in the direction of the 

 station, three miles away. Threading his way through the 

 fon-st I., caim- across a track used ly hunk'i-s, and had only 

 proceeded a few hundred feet when a savage growl caused 

 him to glance a-liead, and there facing him was the mother 

 Lear. His heart 1 -an to throli. although he had freijuently 

 met Lears 1,,-fon-. and liis trusty rifle had always proved a 

 friend to him mi many such occasions. The hear was only 

 thirty feet from him. and its ^mwl caused the little cul.s to 

 s.|iieal. The mother U-ar with a savage growl rushed at the 

 roliln-r of her offspring. As i|iiick a,s a flash he flung one of 

 the cul.s at it-s mother, and sprinjrinr a,side he darte<l away 

 thnm^h the tn-es and reached the path Ix-yond the In-ar, which 

 was now smelling at and fondling its cuk He then dropped 

 the other cul.. and raising his rifle took aim at the mother 

 bear. As soon js she saw him she charged .lown upon him 



