WARWICK WOODLANDS. 1^9 



"Not they! not they! I warrant them," said Archer; 

 "but that to-morrow must bring forth." 



"Come, Harry," exclaimed Forester, after a little pause, 

 "spin us a shooting: yarn," to kill the time, till we get to 

 fat Tom's." 



"A yarn! well, what shall it be?" 



"I don't know; oh! yes! yes! I do. You once told me 

 something about a wolf-hunt, and then shut up your 

 mouth all at once, and would give me no satisfaction." 



"A wolf-hunt?" cried the Commodore, "were you ever 

 at a wolf-hunt; and here in this country, Harry?" 



"Indeed was I, and — " 



"The story, then, the story; we must have it." 



"Oh! as for the story, there is not much — " 



"The story! the story!" shouted Frank. "You may as 

 well b^in at once, for we will have it." 



"Oh ! very well. All is one to me, but you will be tired 

 enough of it before I have got through, so here goes for 



A WOLF HUNT ON THE WARWICK HILLS/' 



said Archer, and without more ado, spun his yarn as fol- 

 lows: 



"There are few wilder regions within the compass of the 

 United States, much less in the vicinity of its most popu- 

 lous and cultivated districts, than that long line of rocky 

 wood-crowned heights which — at times rising to an 

 elevation and exhibiting a boldness of outline that justifies 

 the application to them of the term 'mountains,' while at 

 others they would be more appropriately designated as 

 hills or knolls — run all across the Eastern and the Mid- 

 land States, from the White Mountains westward to the 

 Alleghanies, between which mighty chains they form an 

 intermediate and continuous link. 



"Through this stern barrier, all the great rivers of the 

 States, through which they run, have rent themselves a 

 passage, exhibiting in every instance the most sublime and 

 boldest scenery, while many of the minor, though still 

 noble streams, come forth sparkling and bright and cold 

 from the clear lakes and lonely springs embosomed in its 

 dark recesses. 



"Possessing, for the most part, a width of eight or ten 

 miles, this chain of hills consists, at some points, of a 



