CHAPTER XXIV. 
ANECDOTES OF MOOSE AND DEER HUNTING AMONG THE 
NORTHERN LAKES. 
I wave already furnished a description of two modes of 
hunting deer, practised in the lake country; one by driving 
them into the lake, the other, by candle light on the marsh. 
These are methods almost peculiar to this Ariondack region, 
while there are several more which they practice there, in 
common with many other parts, such as driving on the 
“run-ways’’—still-hunting, and hunting on the “crust” with 
snow-shoes. 
Deer are so surprisingly abundant, that it is worth while 
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