Camping and Hunting Notes 



IN MUSKOKA. 



b OVERS of the chase will best understand the thrill 

 that goes through the nerves of a city man when 

 he receives word to pack up to leave for the woods 

 on a certain day. What anticipations are his. What 

 dreams of landscapes, unknown to the many. What 

 an eager desire for draughts of Nature's balm, best 

 restorative of the human frame. And above all, what 

 hopes that he may actually shoot a deer ! So when 

 the historian of this and other trips was invited by the 

 Dwight-Wiman Club to go to the Muskoka woods at 

 the end of September on one of its annual expeditions, 

 the excursion naturally filled many of his waking and 

 dreaming hours. Consultations as to an outfit ; anxi- 

 ous enquiries about a gun and its ammi lition ; hunting 

 up of woollen shirts, camp blankets, rubber sheets and 

 bags ; perplexities as to moccasins in comparison with 

 rubber shoes ; solicitude on the subject of stiff hats 





