

CHAPTER XXIV. 



ANECDOTES OF MOOSE AND DEER HUNTING AMONG THE 

 NORTHERN LAKES. 



I HAVE already furnished a description of two modes of 

 hunting deer, practised in the lake country ; one by driving 

 them into the lake, the other, by candle light on the marsh. 

 These are methods almost peculiar to this Ariondack region^ 

 while there are several more which they practice there, in 

 common with many other parts, such as driving on the 

 "run-ways" still-hunting, and hunting on the "crust" with 

 snow-shoes, 



Deer are so surprisingly abundant, that it is worth while 



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