52 HILLS AND LAKES. 



tlin', a partridge will sit still within fifteen feet of you. 

 You may shoot half a dozen from the same tree, pro- 

 vided there's so many there, and you keep on whistlin'." 



" That's .something new," said I, " and all I've got 

 to say about it is, that if they're charmed by such 

 music, they have a delicate ear and a singular taste." 



There are two things that I advise every sports- 

 man to do, after a hearty meal in the woods, on a hot 

 summer's day. The first is, to smoke a segar or pipe, 

 if he has one ; and the other is, to seek some cool 

 shade, and gather a bed of dry leaves, and spreading 

 his handkerchief from the rim of his hat,, to keep off 

 the musquitoes and blackfly, lay himself quietly down 

 to sleep for an hour. A longer time will debilitate, 

 and a less time will not rest him. Ten minutes, more 

 or lass, will make no great difference ; but if called 

 upon to choose either, let him be sure to decide in 

 favor of more. 



Daving dined, and enjoyed our siesta, we travelled 

 on. We diverged from our direct route, to visit a 

 small pond in the south-east corner of the township of 

 Duane. This pond contains perhaps two hundred 

 acres, and was without a name, so far as I know. Its 

 waters are clear, and colder than those of the other 



