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NOTES OF THE HUNT. 



Dowson, who lives near upon a fresh clearing opposite 

 the site of Camp Hedley, our head quarters in the 

 Shooting Trip of October, 1882. 



A party of hunters was found here, five in number, 

 from Huntsville, who had within a week put nine deer 

 into the lake but secured only one of them. Finding 

 three of these time-killers fruitlessly dragging, day after 

 day, with innumerable fish-hooks, ^or a gun, in a lake 

 of unknown depth, our boys learnea on enquiry that 

 one of the five had been knocked ou^ of his canoe by 

 the recoil of his rifle, which fell into the lake on one 

 side and its owner on the other. The lodgings of these 

 apprentices to wood-craft was of the rudest : two up- 

 right sticks and a ridge-pole across, some boards on one 

 side of this frame, some boughs on the other, a queer 

 shelter from any inclement weather. 



Shots were heard before noon, both north and south 

 of our head quarters. Before one, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. 

 Quinn paid a visit to the Camp in their canoe, and on 

 returning were followed part way by a messenger " of 

 ours " sent for butter to the portage near their house, 

 whither pretty little Tommy and timid Mary Jane 

 Quinn brought the butter to take with us. Shortly 

 afterward, Mr. Wiman and Ed. came down the creek. 

 They had heard the dogs giving tongue back and forth 

 repeatedly around the Twin Lakes but saw no game 

 and heard no shots. Instructed by them, Jim Trueman 

 took his hungry passenger to Big Twin, whence, after 

 waiting a while and crossing the farther portage to 

 Crotch Lake, the pair came home. To-day was received 

 Dwight's letter to Wiman postponing indefinitely his 

 coming, and thereby greatly damping our pleasure. To- 

 night, after "the best dinner he ever had in his life," the 



