136 Tue Aroostook Woops. 

as ourselves, with head and neck and the upper part of his 
back and hips hidden by the firs, but his shoulders and a part 
of his dappled side all unobstructed to view, and the longer 
white hairs of his coat underneath that were gently waving 
toward us from the breeze, were just on a line with our eyes, 
as we were sitting down hill from where he was quietly 
standing. How long he possibly might have stood there 
listening, waiting for a sight or a sound from the supposed 
doe, one cannot tell. 
Like the antelope, they can be decoyed pretty near at times 
if in some favorable locality. Years since, when fishing 
through the ice was more in order, we were upon the lake for 
that purpose, and had seen the caribou playing around the 
points and in and out the sunny coves during the middle part 
of the bright days. Wishing to see or try their amount of 
curiosity, and if we could entice them to approach, we cut a 
pole for a flag-staff and tied to it by the corners, a red ban- 
danna, then placed it above the centre of our green bough 
shanty out on the ice, in which we used to sit and fish in the 
cool and breezy times. They did not come near that day 
but we left the flag gaily waving above the bough house 
when we returned to camp from fishing. During the night 
it snowed three or four inches and the green boughs were 
well covered. In the morning when we came again, our flag 
was gaily waving, free and dry in the breeze over the white 
mound, yet we could see before reaching the shelter, that we 
were too much behind time to see the circus and enjoy the 
fun. We lost that pleasure, but they left a circus bill upon 
the snow and ice describing the performance. In the first, 
they came out of the woods to the ice from a point below, 
most probably for a romp, which they much enjoy upon the 
