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and I'm glad it's so. There should be left, some broad 

 sweep of wild woods, where a man can get of the 

 sight and sounds of the clearin's, and look upon nater, 

 as it came from the hands of the great Creator, with 

 all the wild animals, and nateral things that belonged 

 to it in the times of old." 



About eleven o'clock, the clouds began to break 

 away the rain gradually ceased, and by noon, blue 

 spots of clear sky were visible. We struck out across 

 the lake, to a small island four or five miles distant. 

 After resting awhile, and coursing a deer with Shack, 

 twice round the island, we paddled on to the foot of 

 the lake. Here we hid away our canoe, and travelled 

 across a low ridge to a small lake, the outlet of which, 

 with those of two others, formed Stony Brook, one of 

 the hundred streams that go to make up the upper 

 portion of the Kacket river. On the banks of this 

 little lake, we found the hut of a half-breed, who, with 

 his wife, and two dirty half-clad children, the oldest 

 six and the youngest two years of age, with as many 

 shaggy, ill-looking curs, lived a solitary life during 

 the summer months, away off here, on the banks of 

 these sequestered waters. As we approached the 

 cabin, the two curs flew yelping and barking towards 



