DWIGHT-WIMAN CLUB. 



II 



Camp Chandler, 



Wednesday, ist October. 



Townsend to Buck Lake, 

 Hedley " Big Twin, 

 Matthews * Clear Lake. 



UCH was our order of march, begun at 8 o'clock. 

 Matthews and his guide went over from Buck 

 into Clear Lake searching for Ed's big dog Scout, 

 which had been lost on Tuesday in Little Twin. He 

 shot a fawn and gave the carcass away to a settler. 

 Tom hit a doe on his watch, but disappointed Alvin 

 by failing to shoot a second time, and so failed to get it. 

 Ensconced behind a pine log, and under the shadow of 

 a tall cliff, Hedley and his man sat, hour by hour, 

 watching the lake — which was ' as placid as an Angli- 

 can sermon,' as John Habberton puts it — especially 

 the mouth of a creek on the east side. They heard 

 the voices of the dogs once or twice but sav/ no deer. 

 The scribe fell asleep, and had wandered off in dreams 

 into Longfellow's country, lulled by the " ripple — tinkle 

 — plonk " of the water. 





Slumbering through the evening twilight, 

 There among the ferns and mosses 

 On the Muskoday, the meadow 



" Muskoday," said he as he awoke ; " no, no, but 

 Muskoka ; what is the meaning of Muskoka ? " His 

 guide, not being imaginative, and having no skill in 

 the Indian tongue, could think of nothing less prosaic 

 than the musk-rat in this connection, which, being 

 unpoetic, was scornfully dismissed. An occasional duck 

 or blue-jay was seen or the croak of a raven heard, 



