Trail and Camp-Fire 



guide who accompanied me. Tuesday I went 

 further north, and covered many miles, in 

 company with a splendid specimen of the 

 Adirondack guide and woodsman. We found 

 fresh tracks, and once we saw three deer a 

 buck and two does but not near enough to 

 justify shooting. Both days the woods were 

 very dry, but Tuesday night it rained, and 

 Wednesday morning, in a drizzling fall of 

 mist, I started out again. At about ten 

 o'clock I saw, through the dense foliage of a 

 fallen tree, the form of a moving deer. Stop- 

 ping instantly, I waited, and in a few seconds 

 saw the head and neck exposed to plain view, 

 at a distance of about sixty yards. A fortu- 

 nate shot broke the vertebra, and the deer 

 died instantly. 



Among the guides and hotel-keepers whom 

 I met, there was a growing sentiment in favor 

 of the entire prohibition of hounding and 

 jacking. The limit of two weeks' time made 

 it a profitless expense to keep dogs for eleven 

 and a half months, when they could only be 

 used for two weeks. 



So many visitors now come to the Adiron- 

 dacks, that the conditions are very different 

 from those which prevailed a decade ago, and 



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