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And, sure enough, after running several hundred yards, 

 the stag wheeled round, ran back up the marsh, and fell 

 dead, with a ball through his heart, within ten yards of 

 the spot where he received the fatal bullet. 



' ' You all some Indian — you ' Waabeck Albino' ' ' 

 (Anglice, "White Indian"), said Joe, with his eyes on 

 fire, as he patted Gisborne' s wet shoulders, with the affec- 

 tionate pride of a young maiden for a victorious lover; and 

 then both fell to work cooking venison steaks. 



"Now, Joe Paul and Peter Jeddore," said Mr. Gis- 

 borne's young bride, in the year 1857, to. the devoted 

 Indian servitors (not servants), who were again to accom- 

 pany her husband upon a mineralogical surveying trip north 

 of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, ' ' mind you bring me home 

 a fine set of Caribou-horns." 



"Suppose the Captain (the synonym of boss in New- 

 foundland) kill him, me carry him, ' ' responded Joe^ regard- 

 ing her not too affectionately, as the worthy fellow was a 

 " wee bit " jealous of her gentle authority. 



In due course, of time, one fine afternoon in September, 

 Gisborne and Joe might have been seen sitting on the side 

 of a hill twelve miles inland from the Bay of Bulls, Trinity 

 Bay. Bear-spoors were plentiful, and Deer-paths innumer- 

 able, but no game in sight. 



"Suppose we go back to camp at harbor— soon dark," 

 said Joe. Standing erect on a large boulder, clean-cut 

 against the sky-lines, Joe gazed long and earnestly north- 

 ward. 



"Caribou come!" he said, gently; "come very quick — 

 believe frightened; now me see — Wolf after him." 



Joe subsequently shot a fine buck that was being chased 

 by a Wolf at Deer Harbor, only a few miles inland from Bay 

 of Bulls, and always insisted that the same Wolf had twice 

 driven game to their larder. 



In a hollow beneath the hunters ran a stream, the banks 

 of which were skirted by alder-bushes and a broad strip of 

 juniper and spruce trees on either side; and down the oppo- 



