DWIGHT-WIMAN CLUB. 



53 



Tuesday, October 14th. 



|NE pair of dogs was put into the woods this morn- 

 ing at the portage to Cooper's Lake ; another oflf 

 Little Twin ; Fly at Poverty Lakj ; Scout and Hunter 

 on the south shore of Buck Lake. The hunters were 

 placed in the following positions : — 



Matthews, 



Tinker, 



AUoo, 



Townsend, - 



Chandler, 



Kimball, 



Wiman, 



Raynor, 



on 



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Clear Lake. 

 Buck " 

 Poverty Lake. ' 

 Big Twin " 

 Little Twin. 

 Cooper's Lake. 

 Long Lake. 



Having heard a shot on Clear Lake, Matthews went 

 thither and found that a buck had been chased into that 

 sheet by a settler named Low and his chum. At Buck 

 Lake, Tinker, who probably believes now in the saying 

 that * it is the unexpected that always happens,' had a 

 vision. He and Keown had relaxed a little the eternal 

 vigilance which Ned declares is the price of successful 

 deer shooting, and were drifting along, thinking of 

 nothing in particular, when on looking up they saw a 

 big buck, standing on the point which projects south- 

 ward and looking at them. His rifle being under the 

 thwart of the canoe. Tinker had to reach forward for it, 

 and at that motion away sprang the buck among the 

 trees, leaving only his image in the memory of the two 

 surprised and chagrined watchers. 



Half an hour later, while Louis was guarding the 

 beaver dam on Poverty, a buck came in at the upper 

 end, near the portage, and swam across the large bay at 



