its place. My eye was glancing along the 

 sights when a sudden movement in the alders 

 •<komenos o'^ ^^ shore, above and beyond the uncon- 

 ^utcasf scions head of Chigwooltz the frog, spared 

 him for a little season to his lily pads and 

 his minnow hunting. At the same moment 

 a kingfisher went rattling by to his old perch 

 over the minnow pool. The alders swayed 

 again as if struck ; a huge bear lumbered out 

 of them to the shore, with a disgruntled 

 woof ! at some twig that had switched his 

 ear too sharply. 



I slid lower in the canoe till only my head 

 and shoulders were visible. Mooween went 

 nosing alongshore till something — a dead 

 fish or a mussel bed — touched his appetite, 

 when he stopped and began feeding, scarcely 

 two hundred yards away. I reached first for 

 my heavy rifle, then for the paddle, and cau- 

 tiously " fanned " the canoe towards shore 

 till an old stump covered my approach. 

 Then the little bark jumped forward as if 

 alive. But I had scarcely started when — 

 klrrrr ! klrrr ! ik-ik-ik ! Over my head 

 swept Koskomenos with a rush of wings 



