and the Maritime Provinces. 



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Fond of Venison. 



from sticks laid across the top, and in a very few days they are preserved 

 so that they can be safely transported. Salmon and sea trout, when 

 treated in this manner, are very palatable when one returns home, and this 

 seems to be the most desirable method of saving them when ice is not to 

 be procured. 



"We found recent signs of a bear this afternoon, down on the shore 

 of the river," said the Judge ; " he had raked open an old stump for ants, 

 and had evidently just left, probably having been frightened by our 

 approach." 



" I 've been in the woods a good many years," said the Doctor, " but 

 have never yet found a bear that would wait my coming." 



" No," I added, "the bear is too keen, both of vision and hearing, to 

 permit man to approach him, but sometimes he gives the sportsman an 

 opportunity to get in his work. An acquaintance of mine, on one occasion, 

 was sitting on a log by the side of an old logging road in Maine, waiting 

 for a chance shot at a deer. He had been there a short time, of course 

 keeping very quiet, when he heard sticks cracking in the adjoining under- 

 growth, and the sound of a large animal drawing nearer and nearer was 

 plainly apparent ; cocking his rifle, he waited for a shot, which he soon got, 

 and one that he did not expect, for greatly to his surprise a huge old bear 

 came out of the thicket and mounted the trunk of an old windfall, not fifty 



