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ing those wMcli we experience liere, are so much 

 greater; as may be observed in many parts of 

 this work. 



TJmrsday, January 15, 1778. Jack returned in 

 the afternoon without any thing. He lay in Goose 

 Cove on Monday night ; in Eagle Cove on Tuesday 

 night; and at the stage last night; from whence 

 he came early this morning. On Venison Head, 

 he saw much slot of deer, and the tracks of both 

 wolves and foxes. AVlien he got near to the stage, 

 three wolves came from thence upon the ice, and 

 seemed disposed to attack him. As I never knew 

 the boy given to lying, I cannot doubt his story; 

 which, for its curiosity, I will relate. The three 

 wolves separated and surrounded him; the two 

 smallest clapped down on their bellies, and the 

 largest, which he said was a very stout old dog, 

 then ran full cry at him. He all this time en- 

 deavored to imitate the appearance and motion of 

 a deer as well as he could, by holding his gun be- 

 hind his back, with the muzzle over his head for a 

 horn, and stooping and walking with his hatchet 

 for a fore-leg. This scheme would have succeeded, 

 had not the old wolf, before he got near enough, 

 took the wind of him; when, finding his mistake, 

 he ran off and howled in a different tone of voice, 

 which the others perfectly understood; for they 

 jumped up, wheeled round and joined him, and 

 then all went off together. One of them has, per- 

 haps, been in one of Wrixon's traps lately; for 

 it was lame, and Jack saw blood in the shoremen's 

 house, where they had taken up their quarters for 



