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and nearly ran over the man in the boat, who shot him before 
he reached the deep water. The dogs were then put out 
again, and before ten o’clock they brought another deer 
down to the water—but this fellow skulked, swam across a 
narrow cove, and made off again. He did not return to this 
lake, which is very unusual, but made off to another, iJm 
Lake, three miles distant. The dogs were not reclaimed 
until noon. After feeding and a short rest, they were put 
out for a third race, and in a little while drove in a third 
deer, which struck out for the widest part of the lake. 
Both hunters started in pursuit; the oarsman cut it off 
from land, and the boatsman, who was furnished with a long, 
forked stick, across the prongs of which a slip-noose of rope 
was tied, now came up by the side of the swimming deer, 
and threw the rope over its head. It plunged very violently, 
but in spite of its struggles he pushed its head under water 
with the assistance of the fork, and soon drowned it. This 
was a fine doe. 
The dogs were again put out, and after a long race brought 
in a yearling spike buck. It came to the water twice, but 
as it had the wind of the two hunters, both times it turned 
and went out. It came at last on the opposite side, and 
struck right out for the open water. The canoe man did 
not succeed in cutting it off this time, and it reached one 
of the islands. The boatman shot at.it as it was going out, 
and missed. 
They then took a position on each side to prevent its 
escape, while “Old Sound,” who had reached the shore, and 
comprehended in a moment how matters were, swam to the 
island and soon routed the little buck, which now attempted 
to reach the second island. The man in the canoe cut it 
off this time, and darting up alongside of it as it swam, 
seized it by its short horns, and drawing its head back, cut 
its throat. : 
But the bcatman in the meantime had his hands full as 
