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much ill-feeling between the two men and their guides, 

 with charges and countercharges, and that stage had 

 now been reached where subprenas were to be served 

 upon some of Henry's guides. Our companions con- 

 jectured that the visit of these two men was to find a 

 certain guide to serve such a legal document upon. 



Afterward, in the afternoon, we came across their 

 tracks leading from another camp to this one. This 

 visit of theirs, it may be easily inferred, caused much 

 talk and comment. 



After dinner the rain subsided somewhat and we 

 went down to the lake a few yards from the cabin and 

 entered a rather rudely built pirogue, fashioned out 

 of a big pine log. As the log was partly rotten at one 

 end, it had been neatly mended by stretching a piece of 

 canvas over the decayed part, to prevent the water from 

 running in. 



We made a circuit of the lake and in one corner 

 Henry heard a cow moose call. We landed near by 

 and made a careful search of a portion of the woods, 

 but found no signs of the cow, or, what would have 

 been more to our fancy, of a bull. 



We did see, however, the skeleton of a moose lying 

 along the roadside, which Henry said had been wan- 

 tonly killed in the previous July by a man who wanted 

 to test a new rifle and to whose mind there was noth- 

 ing like a living animal, and the bigger the better for 

 this purpose. 



