DWIGHT-WIMAN CLUB. 



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id Ci<-cir 

 ;hain of 

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 i, on the 

 a pair of 

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 wimming 

 breathed 

 quarry in 

 Recover- 

 eer found 

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ed west- 



;ar Lake, 



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ing beast 

 unusual 



the shot, 

 shot be- 



e showed 

 chain of 



nker had 



hit, but which it was reserved for Chandler to finish. 

 So, in the spirit of comradeship, the two heroes of this 

 exciting chase agreed to call the trophy Our Mutual 

 Deer, whereupon Matthews suggested " call it the 

 Mutual Union deer," which was agreed to, and the 

 significance of the altered title will be readily under- 

 stood by the knowing ones. 



Perhaps it proved a strain on the " principle of 

 mutuality," as an underwriter calls it, to have the event 

 shape itself as it did. Certainly it must have needed a 

 well-tried friendship and much inward grace to prevent 

 each party from insisting upon priority of right. And 

 yet we liked to fancy Tinker saying, with Orlando, in 

 As you like it'. 



" But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through 

 another man's eyes ! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at 

 the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall think my brother 

 happy in havin- what he wishes for " 



Willie Raynor, his pipe and his guide all went to 

 Ox Tongue Lake, but saw no game and heard only one 

 shot, probably Townsend's. Glad enough was Hedley 

 to find W. P. R. at Camp on returning about three, 

 and to receive his congratulations and his invitation. 

 Wiman had devoted this afternoon to performing the 

 part of a mail-earner, for he went with Gouldie to 

 Dwight P. O. for letters and telegrams, receiving and 

 despatching a goodly pile. "Why, Sirs," said one of 

 the guides, ** sich a man for gettin' letters as that there 

 Mr. Wiman, I never seen. Dog'd ef he don't git as 

 many as would fill a fishin' r)£sket at a time. And he 

 don't think no more of sendin telegraphs all the way to 

 New York an' Toronto. Sakes alive ! but he must be 



