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Wolves, and Foxes." At Sherbrooke he met a friendly newspaper 

 man who said one Dan Ball, of Megantic, knew all about the Deer 

 of that country, and so to Megantic he posted. He met Ball, and 

 found him able and willing to get the Deer. He then went fifty 

 miles to North Bay, 200 miles west, and from there to Mattawa, on 

 the verge of a region where Moose abound, Deer are plentiful, and 

 Beaver possible to obtain alive. A contract was made with a 

 trapper for a supply of all these animals — at least twenty of each, 

 if that number was possible. 



Meantime Dan Ball had gone to work at Megantic by 

 selecting a few friends, and looking over the woods to see where 

 the Deer were "yarding." In December the snow became five feet 

 deep in the woods, and Dan knew of one " yard " where at least 

 300 Deer were gathered together. Then he and six others went 

 on snow-shoes, with buckskin thongs, and one gun loaded with 

 powder only. Locating a bunch of Deer in a thicket, six of the 

 men crept up as near as possible to the leeward without alarming 

 them. Then the seventh came tearing down with the wind and 

 with a wild yell, and the discharge of the gun, scattered the 

 bunch like a flock of Quails before a cur pup. Some of the 

 fleeing beauties plumped into the snow, that was so deep and so 

 fluffy, that they sank out of sight at the first struggle, nor could 

 they escape till Dan and his friends kindly lent a hand. In all a 

 dozen were captured thus, and with legs bound with soft leather 

 thongs, were carried to an old shanty in the woods some distance 

 from Megantic. 



In January Eyan went away to bring the Deer to the park in 

 New Hampshire. Megantic is on the Canadian Pacific road. A 

 box-car was sent to a siding formerly used by a lumber mill, and 

 there carpeted with hay, straw, and a good supply of browse. 

 The ends were then partitioned off from the space between the 

 doors by means of poles, and within the spaces thus formed the 

 Deer were placed, being simply lifted in. They had been kept in 

 the meantime in the old mill unbound. With Dan Ball to look 

 after and especially to water the Deer, the car was hauled to 

 Newport, Vt., the location of the United States customs office, 

 where they were passed duty free, and were sent on to Newport, 

 N.H., by way of Concord, nearly 100 miles farther than necessary. 

 The extra ride proved disastrous, for one Deer died en route, and 



