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NOTES OF THE HUNT. 



invited us at 8.30 to the chase. Ed. 

 its accustomed nail this programme : — 



For Duck Lake, 

 Cooper's Lake, 

 Big Twin '* - - - 

 Foot Long Lake, - - 

 Head " 

 Clear Lake, - 

 Run-wa}^ head Twin, 

 Devil's Angle, 

 Angle Portage, - 



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had hung up on 



Mr. Wiman. 



" Matthews. 

 Mons. Alloo. 

 Mr. Raynor. 



Kimball. 



Tinker. 



Townsend. 



Chandler. 



Hedley. 



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" Put some stars here," as Artemas Ward directs 

 his printer on one. occasion, may well be written on 

 this page, for but a beggarly account of empty canoes 

 and bitter disappointments came from the lips of our 

 hunters when we re-assembled at one to-da5\ The 

 young dogs had been put out on the portage between 

 Cooper's Lake and Long Lake ; Fly and Scout, separ- 

 ately, on the west side of Poverty Lake. Salmon's 

 young dogs were not available, not having returned. 

 (They were found on Sunday, at- McCann's corners, 

 some two miles from Dwight, Mr. Meredith and other 

 seitici? recognized and detained them.) There was one 

 brilliant exception, however, for Matthews' repeater was 

 heard at half-past ten, thrice in succession, He had 

 seen a doe swimming in Cooper's Lake, and after an 

 energetic chase in Robert's birch canoe, put two balls 

 through her head. Wiman came from Duck Lake at 

 1.30 after a long and exhaustive trip homeward against 

 the wind, cheery as usual though with no trophies of his 

 formidable Remington, one barrel of which is a No. lo 



