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THE DESERTED HUT. HUNTING ON THE CRUST. FOREST JXTBTICB 

 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 

 across to the opposite shore. We saw numerous 

 "broods of wild ducks, sporting in the water, now 

 diving and again skimming along the surface, in play- 

 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 



