178 One Deer. 



up the lake caught sight of us, and his 

 wild querulous call ringing through the 

 forest was answered by echo and sent 

 wavering from cliff to cliff. Again and 

 again the weird cry echoed and re-echoed 

 from the mountain sides and was sent 

 from shore to shore, and an eagle soaring 

 high overhead answered with its screams. 

 The reverberations ceased, and the still- 

 ness was broken only by the song of a 

 happy cross-bill within the short range 

 of his little voice. A mink came swim- 

 ming alongside of us, his bright mis- 

 chievous eyes trying to make out what we 

 were. Suddenly an otter's head appeared 

 above the water, and soon another, and 

 another, and in the most amusing way 

 they bobbed up and down and spit at us 

 in their spiteful way. For two or three 

 minutes the otters swam along ahead of 

 us, diving and appearing again, and finally 

 they disappeared all at once, probably 

 going to pursue their calling of catching 

 the big trout which abounded in the lake. 

 Gradually we neared the little bay, and 

 as we rounded the rocky point Dick 



