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like bread and butter ; the grass, plain bread, the 

 flowerj, ornamental and savory butter ;) in utter ignor- 

 ance, poor animals ! of the evil designs entertained against 

 them by those two-legged visitors who were so placidly 

 watching them round the corner. The light skiffs were 

 noiselessly paddled to within a short distance of them, and 

 then, coming full into sight, away bounded four-legs in 

 a fright. 



These boats may always be paddled very close to the 

 deer, by a clever fellow, who will take care to place him- 

 self so that the wind shall not blow from him to the ani- 

 mal, otherwise the keen scent of the deer would instantly 

 make him aware of his dangerous neighbor, to whom he 

 would forthwith say good-bye, with more haste than 

 ceremony. 



Camping again, on an island in the Upper Saranac, 

 as the sun went down, the fish were jumping about so 

 temptingly, in the quiet lake, that the boat was rowed 

 out to troll for the large dark trout. These lake trout 

 are not nearly so handsome as their cousins of the 

 stream and river ; but what is wanting in beauty, they 

 make up in size, and in the sport which they conse- 

 quently afford the angler, who needs be a skilful hand, 

 to land his fish after having hooked him. 



One of these large gentlemen was soon struck, and 

 then began an exciting struggle. Fish, finding he was 

 caught, made off in a hurry to . the middle of the lake, 

 bending the rod like a bow in his hasty flight. But 

 Angler was thoroughly up to him. Holding hard on by 

 the butt, he gave him a hundred and fifty feet of line, 

 and by the time he had used that up, Fish began to feel 



