TEE DESERTED HuT. HUNTING ON THE CRUST. FOREST J0STICB 



ADMINISTERED BY A HUNTER. A CAPTIVE AND ITS RELEASE. 



FROM the top of this rock, we had a view of the 

 whole lake a small pocket telescope brought every- 

 thing close to me. We saw several deer, feeding 

 along the margin, in different directions, and some 

 half a mile down the lake, we saw one swimming 



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across to the opposite shore. We*Maw numerous 

 broods of wild ducks, sporting in the water, now 

 diving and again skimming along the surface, in pl&y- 

 ful gyrations round the careful mother. As we were 

 watching one of these broods, in a little bay some 

 fifteen rods from us, we saw them at a signal, which 

 we heard from the mother, dart suddenly from sight, 

 among the flags and rushes, while she, too, hastened 

 to conceal herself. We saw the cause of this alarm, 

 in a large bald eagle, that came soaring majestically 



