windfalls, until we reached an old lumber camp, which 

 the guide went down to investigate. Xo. Maine guide 

 can pass an old camp for the first time without having a 

 " look in " to see if anything's been left that he can make 

 use of. Before lie reached the buildings three deer, one 

 of them a l>ig buck, jumped out of some raspberry Vjushes, 

 and bounded away over the creek and into the woods 

 beyond. 



I started for them and stalked them for nearly an 

 hour, until I came within shooting distance of the does ; 

 but although I heard the buck I could not get my eyes 

 upon him, and the does I did n.ot want; so I returned to 

 the road. We now had a journey of three and a half 

 miles over a road probably as bad as could be found any- 

 where; that is, if mud, water, alders, alder roots, cedar 

 root', windfalls and slippery rocks could make it so. 

 There's an end to all things, however, and the road 

 finally led us to a " landing"" on the brook where a large 

 number of logs were left high and dry from the last drive, 

 Some of them, in fact, looked as if they had V)een there 

 for years. There were probaljly half a million feet 

 in and near this spot We crossed the brook and found 

 a logging road, wliich we followed for a mile or more, 

 but no signs of a dam. We heard an occasional deer 

 cracking a dry lindi in the dense wood or thicket of small 

 pines, which Ijordered the roadway on either side, but 

 couldn"t get a sight of them. Here the guide said we'd 

 better turn back, as we were going in the wrong direction, 

 but I proposed walking at any rate half a mile further, 

 and probably we might find something worth shooting at. 

 We made one turn in the road when we heard a bmnch 



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