XII. 



THE LAW or THE WOODS Bio CLEAR POND. A CHASE ATTIB 

 A DEES. A MOOSE PATH. 



AT evening we returned to our shantee, with a 

 supply of trout, and a small deer that we had shot. 

 "We found Shack watching his charge, and mighty 

 glad he was to see us too. Like us, he relished his 

 supper that night. 



"Tucker," said I, as we sat smoking our pipes 

 after supper, and listening to the hooting of the owls, 

 and the song of the whip-poor-will, "do you know 

 that we have been breaking the law, and incurring a 

 heavy penalty, by the killing of the deer, upon which 

 we have been supping?" 



" Squire," said he, " I've hearn tell of such a thing, 

 and suppose it's so, but I never read the law, and 

 shouldn't regard it much if I had. Not that I believe 



