DWIGHT-WIMAN CLUB. 



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shot gun and one a rifle. Long Lake had been patrolled 

 faithfully by Raynor at the foot, Kimball at the head, 

 and Hedley mid-way, but without the sight of a four 

 legged creature. Tinker at Clear Lake, had plenty of 

 landscape but no luck. 



But Louis' experience was one which none so well 

 as his own facile pen can properly describe ; An hour 

 and a half had he waited there, as patiently as a mer- 

 curial temperament can, with no sound of dogs and no 

 sign of life larger than a loon or a distant duck, when a 

 most disturbing thing happened. While the canoe, with 

 Alloo seated in it, was grounded on the margin of the 

 pretty birch grove on the east side, and Bill stood on a 

 log close by, both scanning the lake for the twentieth 

 time in the hope of seeing ears or antlers on its surface 

 — whish ! came a buck from out the brush-wood behind 

 them and splash ! he went into the water not thirty feet 

 from the boat, 



*' Sacristi ! voila." One can fancy the exclamation. 



" Get your gun," called the guide, at the same 

 moment pushing out the canoe. 



The excited hunter took aim, prematurely, while yet 

 the deer was scarcely clear of the shore, but the canoe 

 danced a little on the rippling swell, and the bullet 

 went through the upright ear of the startled buck. 

 Round about he turned, and sped into the woods again ; 

 the hunters, without the dogs were helpless, and the 

 magnificent fellow, with Louis' ear mark on him, sought 

 cover in the forest. ......; 



" I have since killed him in my dreams, however, 

 hies of hisimes amis," said Alloo on the Sunday morning, with a 

 is a No. io|sigh of genuine disappointment. 



