“7 THE AERIAL BINS: 
EARS past and at a time when the deer were scarce com- 
Y pared with the present, and more wild with all from too 
much stalking, we concluded to build us a rookery up among 
the branches of the trees, high enough, that the breezes should 
not notify the deer and caribou of our presence in their feed- 
ing grounds. Accordingly, a Boston boy and your humble 
servant, built us what we called the ‘‘ Aerial Blind.” Our 
companion had acquired the sobriquet of Doctor, so called 
from his being well versed in chemistry. He had soon learned 
to answer to this title, no doubt fully realizing as well as we 
that he had taken all the degrees necessary for treating healthy 
woodsmen like ourselves. But his ability to compound medi- 
cines was such that one found it impossible to resist swallow- 
ing a dose of his dispensing. The doctor, truly in love with 
the health renewing forest, is entertaining and cheerful; he 
not only enjoys the good time on an outing, but seems the hap- 
piest when industriously assisting to make it more pleasant 
and enjoyable to the party. So we two, armed and equipped 
with saw, axe and hammer, spikes, nails and augur, ropes, 
wire and dinner, not forgetting the blackened tea pail, which 
