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PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



Redskin jumped suddenly out of a canoe in which he had 

 been lolling, clapped his ear to the ground, exciting greatly 

 my curiosity, and remained in that ludicrous and ungrace- 

 ful position for some minutes. On asking him for an ex- 

 planation, naught but a grunt could I get for an answer, 



PASSENGER PIGEONS. 



and a non-describable wave of the hand, as if to invoke si- 

 lence. After manoeuvring thus, my nearly exhausted pa- 

 tience received the explanation that one of the hounds was 

 running a deer, and that they were coming this way. Im- 

 mediately afterward I was bundled into a canoe, and al- 

 though I had never previously handled a paddle, was forced 



