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did. They contemplated a three weeks' hunt, but during the first 

 three days had two dogs shot and three poisoned. Some years 

 ago, a party of Ohio people lost their dogs in the same way, and, 

 unluckily for the active toxicologist, they found out who he was. 

 When I passed that way he had rebuilt his barns and various out- 

 buildings, and it was thought that, until the region commanded the 

 services of a reliable insurance company, he would abstain from the 

 use of strychnine. The immunity our party enjoyed had been gained 

 somewhat as an ancient proprietary right, they having hunted there 

 for so many years. Besides, they had in various ways rendered 

 themselves popular with the natives ; no visitor ever left the camp 

 hungry or thirsty ; and the Herr Doctor's periodicity was a matter 

 of importance to a widely spread, if not numerous, community. 

 They saved up fractures of six months' standing for him, and events 

 of a more strictly domestic nature seemed to happen adventitiously 

 during his hunting sojourn. 



We brought out our venison safely and in good condition, — a 

 ton and a half of it or thereabouts. At Detroit, we went our ways, 

 ending an expedition which had in it, luckily, no mishap to mar it, 

 but plenty of wholesome recreation to make one's recollection of it 

 wholly pleasant. 



A ToN AND A HALF OK VENISON. 



