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WIIKRE THE S^()liTJ^MAX LOVES TO LINGER. 



game, but that evening we learned to the eontrary. We 

 determined to find a solution of the problem that very 

 night. Further up the lake was anotlier camp. After sup- 

 per we pushed one of the canoc^s into the lake and called 

 on the occupants of the other camp, to ''feer' of them con- 



What We Saw on Webster Lake. 



cerning our experience of the afternoon. We approached 

 the subject carefully, and had asked but a few questions 

 when they all broke into a laugh, they having seen the 

 whole circus and having been themselves taken in by the 

 same game. 



They had seen us going home and, thinking we had tired 

 the ducks out, proposed to bag the whole bunch; so into 

 their canoes they went after the ducks, and, from what they 

 told us, they ran them at least three miles further up the 



