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it common interests, that so draw us to these men in 

 these desolate regions ? I do not know ; but we are 

 never tired of talking, and it seems as if we had known 

 one another for years, instead of having met for the first 

 time a few days ago. 



" Wednesday, June 23d. It is now three years since 

 we left home. As we sat at the dinner-table this even- 



A CHAT AFTER DINNER 



ing, Hayward, the cook, came rushing in and said there 

 was a bear outside. We went out, Jackson with his 

 camera and I with my rifle. W^e saw the head of the 

 bear above the edge of the shore ; it was sniflfing the air 



