. The hunter and the trapper in North America; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest . oo killed by , and the animals skull and antlers appearedabove the doorw^ay of our hut, the glorious trophy of amagnificent chase [As a relief to M. R^voils narrative, we may quoteLongfellows animated description of hunting the deer,from his poem of Hiawatha :— Hidflen in the alder-lnislies,There he waited till the deer came,Till he saw two antlers lifted,Saw two eyes look from the thicket,.Saw two nostrils point to windward,And a deer came down the with leafy light and shadow;

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. The hunter and the trapper in North America; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest . oo killed by , and the animals skull and antlers appearedabove the doorw^ay of our hut, the glorious trophy of amagnificent chase [As a relief to M. R^voils narrative, we may quoteLongfellows animated description of hunting the deer,from his poem of Hiawatha :— Hidflen in the alder-lnislies,There he waited till the deer came,Till he saw two antlers lifted,Saw two eyes look from the thicket,.Saw two nostrils point to windward,And a deer came down the with leafy light and shadow;And his heart within him like the leaves above the hirch-leaf palpitated,As the deer came down the pathway. QUOTATTOX LONGFELLOW. 281 Then, upon one knee uprising,Hiawatha aimed an arrow ;Scarce a twig moved with his a leaf was stirred or the wary roebuck with all his hoofs together,Listened with one foot uplifted,Leaped as if to meet the arrow;Ah I the singing, fatal a wasp it buzzed and stung him ].

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