CRUST AND LAKE HUNTING. 517 
sure to see,you first, and then you only get whistled at by 
them for your pains! 
So that, after trying every other mode of summer and fall 
hunting, you are compelled to fall back upon the lakes at 
last. Round Lake and Pleasant used to be famous for this 
hunt, but they have fallen greatly into disrepute now; though 
it is still very easy any warm morning to drive a deer into 
this end of Lake Pleasant, as I have found by repeated 
experiments. 
However, there are other lakes at hand where the sport 
is much more exciting and sure. Whittaker Lake is now 
more resorted to, and that, too, with more surprising success, 
than any other nearer than Louis Lake. It always has been, 
and must continue, so long as there are any deer in the 
country, to be the favorite place of refuge for them, on account 
of its peculiar conformation. Its two islands, and the many 
narrow coves for which it is peculiar, offer many facilities 
for ready escape, by losing the dogs. In this hunt there 
should generally be at least two boats on the lake. This 
is particularly necessary at Whittaker, where there were 
formerly two boats. To give some idea of the method of 
conducting this hunt, practiced by the natives here, each 
of whom is a good oarsman of course, I will give an outline 
of what three men accomplished in a single day’s hunt. 
Three is the proper number to act without mutual embar- 
rassment, two to man the boats and one to “put out” the 
dogs. This party had two dogs, one of which was remarkably 
sagacious and well trained. They shanteed on the shore 
the over night, and the dogs were put out by sunrise in 
the morning. 
The two boatmen, or rather one in a boat and the other in 
a small canoe, took position; the boat hid in the grass of the 
marsh at one end, and the canoe under the alders at the 
point of one of the islands. In a very short time a large 
buck came splashing through the marsh in a terrible panic, 
