32 HILLS AND LAKES. 



and the worm, coiled upon jour hook, for a genuine 

 wanderer from the bogs of the marshy bank. " Here 

 they are born, grow great, and die," undisturbed and 

 and unpersecuted by the sportsman. 



We found the deer, too, more numerous than we 

 had seen them before. Long ere the night shadows 

 had gathered around us, we saw them stealing out 

 from the thickets that skirted the lake. They would 

 walk stealthily and warily into the water, and after 

 stooping their graceful necks to drink, would swim 

 away, as if to indulge a cooling bath and saturate 

 their " red coats" with water, and then return to feed 

 quietly by the shore, secure alike from the annoyance 

 of insects and the heat of a summer sun. In the 

 night, we went out among them with a light in the 

 bow of our canoe, and the number we frightened 

 " into fits" was not small. From their actions, I infer 

 that our features were by no means pleasant to them, 

 for the moment they caught sight of our faces, they 

 ran off with a speed that a race -horse might envy. 

 Our visit will long be remembered by them. The 

 story will go down "to their children, and their chil- 

 dren's children," as the epoch of the advent of strange 

 monsters, who came among them in the night to 



