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shooting ; my comrade was very pensive ; I heard 

 afterwards that there were good reasons for it, as no 

 slight suspicions rested on him. 



As the weather was warm and pleasant, we resolved 

 to look for bees as M^ell as deer; for we had each a 

 great longing for honey. We placed the bait in the 

 empty shell of a tortoise, and separated in chase of deer. 

 Hogarth had a call with him and attempted to attract 

 the does by imitating the cry of their fawns ; a most 

 disgraceful practice, which is too often indulged in. 

 This practice is most abominable, on two accounts: 

 first, because it is base and cruel to lure the mother to 

 her destruction by imitating the cry of her young; 

 secondly, because it so rapidly exterminates all the 

 game, by killing off the does, and leaving the fawns to 

 perish with hunger, when they are too young to find 

 their own -nourishment. Although I scorned to adopt 

 such a vile practice, I shot a two-year-old buck, while 

 Hogarth shot nothing. 



At nightfall, the winds seemed to break loose from 

 all the thirty-two points of the compass at once, to 

 blow down all the old fir-trees in the forest ; towards 

 midnight the storm subsided, and changed into such 

 heavy rain that I was obHged to cut a channel with 

 my knife round our blanket terit to carry off the 

 water. 



On the next morning Slowtrap joined us with his 

 own and Hogarth's dogs, as he wanted to find a bear 

 which was paying rather too much attention to his pigs. 

 The dogs soon found the trail, and after a pretty fight, 

 Slowtrap knocked him over with his rifle ball, just as 



