DWIGHT-WIMAN CLUB. 



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Monday, October 6th. 



rnHE morning broke fai»* with a brisk wind on our 

 I lake. This became, after we h'xd started at 7:40, 

 a head wind on Twin and the other lakes beyond. 

 Two pairs of dogs were put out at nine : Fly and Scout 

 on Buck Lake ; Glen and Dan on Little Twin. Town- 

 send, being on Clear Lake, where wind and waves were 

 rough, had no luck. Hedley had a shot at a doe in 

 Poverty Lake, but missed. Matthews gave chase, in 

 Buck Lake, to what was probably the same doe, firing 

 three shots at long range, without success. It would 

 have been surprising, under the circumstances, if he 

 had hit her, good shot as he is, for the lake was rough 

 and the animal was exactly between him and the sun. 

 Comparing notes, an hour or two later, with Hedley, it 

 was determined to return to camp. On the way home, 

 while waiting on Poverty Lake portage for Wilbur, who 

 lingered to listen for the dogs, Ed.'s eye caught a deer 

 swimming straight up the lake so he gave chase, alone, 

 with no weapcn but his paddle. The other three, 

 bundling into the remaining canoe, followed, and the 

 doe — the same we had previously seen — kept in the 

 open water, by Gouldie's skilfully " surrounding " it, 

 was shot at three times and twice wounded. It was 

 finally captured, and Matthews rejoiced over his long- 

 headed and long-winded doe, which had led our dogs 

 so wild a chase for three tedious hours. 



Leisurely we paddled all three canoes homeward, 

 heavily laden, for we had picked up three of the dogs 

 on the way, and were in sight of camp when, rounding 

 a point of Long Lake, behold ! a dainty buck taking 

 the water a few hundred yards ahead. A rapid spurt 

 with the paddles, a hasty shot from Wilbur, and the 



