. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . iboo killed by , and the animals skull and antlers appearedabove the doorway of our hut, the glorious trophy of amagnificent chase ! [As a relief to M. Revoils narrative, we may quoteLongfellows animated description of ^ hunting the deer,from his poem of Hiawatha :— Hidden in the alder-bushes,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 pathwa
. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . iboo killed by , and the animals skull and antlers appearedabove the doorway of our hut, the glorious trophy of amagnificent chase ! [As a relief to M. Revoils narrative, we may quoteLongfellows animated description of ^ hunting the deer,from his poem of Hiawatha :— Hidden in the alder-bushes,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 pathway,Flecked with leafy light and shadow;And his heart within him fluttered,Trembled like the leaves above him,Like the birch-leaf palpitated,As the deer came down the pathway. QUOTATION FROM LONGFELLOW. 281 Then, upon one knee uprising,Hiawatha aimed an arrow ;Scarce a twig moved with his motion,Scarce a leaf was stirred or rustled,But the wary roebuck started,Stamped with all his hoofs together,Listened with one foot as if to meet the arrow;Ah ! the singing, fatal , a wasp it buzzed and stung C>^ >-C
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