. Rod and gun. which destroyed both hiseyes. He ran up the hill and in acircle around Slim who fired bothbarrels at short range putting theanimal out of its misery. On in-vestigation we found it was a femalewolf, and nine little pups emerged andwere soon crawling around the motherfor Slims two shots had torn a greathole in the wolfs side. After skinning the mother and dis-patching the cubs we returned tocamp. Next morning, owing to a changein the weather, we were able to crossPot Hole and start on our journeyhomewards. We reached town about fouroclock in the afternoon, tiied butpleased with ou
. Rod and gun. which destroyed both hiseyes. He ran up the hill and in acircle around Slim who fired bothbarrels at short range putting theanimal out of its misery. On in-vestigation we found it was a femalewolf, and nine little pups emerged andwere soon crawling around the motherfor Slims two shots had torn a greathole in the wolfs side. After skinning the mother and dis-patching the cubs we returned tocamp. Next morning, owing to a changein the weather, we were able to crossPot Hole and start on our journeyhomewards. We reached town about fouroclock in the afternoon, tiied butpleased with our success, both from agimners standpoint and from a fi-nancial one. Everyone envied us thesize and variety of our bag, while theamount of bounty money we received,forty dollars for the wolves and fivedollars for each of the cubs, made ita very profitable outing. A prominentrancher told me that the eleven wolveswc had captured meant the saving ofmore than one hundred head of cattleand horses for one vear All Small Mouth Black Bass Charleston Lake Thad W. Leavitt A thing of beauty is a joy forever, andwell may this trite saying be applied toCharleston Lake, a beautiful sheet of watersituated nineteen miles from Brockville, Ont-ario and five miles from the village of county boasts many inland lakes, butCharleston is pre-eminently queen of all. Ata very early date its beauty was recognized,and in 1816, we find Rev. Wm. Smart writinga glowing description of the scenery, now sowell known and thoroughly appreciated. Atthat time. Blue Mountain was the home of avast number of bears and wolves, while theborders of the lake alTorded pasturage for deerin almost unlimited numbers. The wolveshave been exterminated. Bruin is never metwith, the deer have been driven into the in-terior, but the lake remains in all its pristinebeautj-, fresh from the hand of the with islands, clothed with primevalforest, it sits laughing in the sunshine, withvarying mood, but
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