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der was up in the nipples; but when we reached 

 Watch, what was our disgust, of course, to find 

 that he had tree'd a covey of Canadian partridge ? * 

 "Unwillingly we went to work and decimated this 

 unhappy and unconscious brood, nor could all our 

 efforts afterward induce the unfailing bear-dog to 

 take up the desired track ; intensely disgusted we all 

 returned, and bear-meat and bear-hunting for a long 

 time were subjects that few of tlie would-be hunters 

 liked to hear mentioned by the residents of the settle- 

 ment, for there was a strong suspicion that what was 

 said on these subjects was said in chaff. 



* Willow Grouse. 



