ACCESSIBLE FIELD SPOETS, 



CHAPTER I. 



A NIGHT'S ADVENTURE. 



THIRTY miles north of Toronto commences a network 

 of lakes that extend over many hundred square miles 

 northward, scattered in every direction through the 

 dense forest that covers that picturesque locality. 

 Game and fish of almost every variety are here to be 

 found, making one of the best retreats for enthusiastic 

 sportsmen that can be found within a similar radius 

 of the Atlantic sea-board of Northern America. True, 

 the prairie chicken, the capricious salmon, and the 

 timid trout are wanting ; but this deficiency is well 

 supplied by the number and variety of other species 

 of game well worthy of the attention of both hunter 

 and fisherman. Bear and deer are here numerous, 

 roaming undisturbed in the retreats of their pro- 



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