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Vice-president, sated and blissful, made a hearty speech 

 of welcome to the Club's guests, who in turn declared 

 themselves mentally and corporeally content, like the 

 Bois Blanc fisherman. 



We could never get too much of Alloo's delightful 

 story-telling, and so we coaxed him to narrate to the 

 full house, his adventure on Poverty Lake : He and 

 his guide had there espied a doe, swimming broadside 

 to, fifty yards away. Louis, with a sportsman-like 

 nonchalance worthy of a denizen of the forest of Com- 

 peigne, planted himself upright upon the sands of the 

 lake, cocked his rifle, and, politely asking the guide 

 where he would prefer the deer to be hit, received the 

 reply, **in the head." "Tresbien," responded the pupil 

 of Vecole militaire at Antwerp, " in the eye, then ;" and 

 straightway put a ball through both its eyes. This 

 feat was sufficient to set him up in reputation amongst 

 the guides, who are pleased with any exhibition of 

 markmanship, and are just a trifle too much disposed, 

 some of us thought, to rate a man as good for much or 

 good-for-nothing in life, according as he shoots or pad- 

 dles well or ill. , . r. ^ . ^^ 



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THE MUTUAL UNION DEER. 



AA UCH interest had been felt by the rest of the party 

 ^ -^ in the success, as deer-stalkers, of Messrs. Tinker 

 and Chandler, whose first experience of the kind was fur- 

 nished by the present trip. Alloc, of course, was used 

 to hunt in France, and was a good shot ; but the others 

 had yet to furnish ' a taste of their quality ' and they 



