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Photograph by George Shiras, 3d 

 SECOND ALBINO BUCK, CAPTURED IN 1915, WHEN THREE YEARS OLD ; WEIGHT, 160 



POUNDS 



Shown above with three normal deer and fawn. Antlers each year in the form of long spikes, 

 with one forked. Note white velvet on the growing antlers (see page 185). 



of a heavy snowstorm, I saw what looked 

 like a small mouse at the base of a maple 

 tree, and then this dark object elongated 

 into the head and neck of a grouse. Find- 

 ing the weather to its taste, it emerged, 

 clucking and spreading its tail before 

 taking flight for a repast upon the swollen 

 buds of a near-by birch. 



Many years later, while hunting the 

 varying hare, just as a blizzard came 

 sweeping in from Lake Superior, I saw 

 the swift descent of a dark body from a 

 tree ahead and a slight disturbance in the 

 snow. Noticing a grouse in the same 

 tree, I knew its companion had sought 

 warmth and protection in the coverlet be- 

 low and I withdrew without disturbing 

 either. 



Sometimes in winter or the early spring 

 there may come a rain or a warm day that 

 melts the surface snow, followed by 

 severe weather, and then thousands of 

 grouse are imprisoned and the heretofore 



safe retreat becomes their tomb, should 

 weeks pass by before the seal is broken. 



CHAPTER V 



EXTRAORDINARY CATCH OE LAKE TROUT 

 WITH TROEEING LINES 



In 1872, when 12 years old, I had an 

 early introduction to lake trout. A report 

 was brought to Marquette by a lumber- 

 laden schooner, becalmed for a while in 

 the vicinity of Stannards Rock, a sand- 

 stone reef lying a few feet below the sur- 

 face, some forty-five miles northwest of 

 the town, that the waters about the reef 

 were surrounded by immense schools of 

 lake trout. It was said that the fish 

 could be hauled aboard the schooner by 

 simply casting a trolling spoon overboard, 

 when there was such a rush by the fish 

 that one could imagine it was a contest 

 to see which one might be caught first. 



An enterprising captain of a local ex- 



