. The trial to the woods. Locked Antlers to a distant lonely lake, where, by the way, we werenever lonely, and had stopped under an overhang-ing fir to rest and enjoy the wild beauty of theswamp. The vegetation was very rank in this mossy 59 fastness, even the trees had festooned themselveswith long silvery streamers of moss that floated toand fro in the slight breeze of the summer light as thistle down it seemed, and it gave the. The Friendly Fir dark spruces and tamaracks the semblance of veilednuns. The busy life of the hard woods did not penetratevery freely to the swamp, so the
. The trial to the woods. Locked Antlers to a distant lonely lake, where, by the way, we werenever lonely, and had stopped under an overhang-ing fir to rest and enjoy the wild beauty of theswamp. The vegetation was very rank in this mossy 59 fastness, even the trees had festooned themselveswith long silvery streamers of moss that floated toand fro in the slight breeze of the summer light as thistle down it seemed, and it gave the. The Friendly Fir dark spruces and tamaracks the semblance of veilednuns. The busy life of the hard woods did not penetratevery freely to the swamp, so the birds and squirrelswere not numerous here. As we sat under the friendly fir musing and ad-miring, I began poking in the moss with my foot,which soon struck something hard. This whetted 6o my curiosity, and I poked away the moss and bydegrees unearthed a hard, hornlike knob which ex-tended further and further down into the mold. Williams did not at first notice what I was about,but before I had guessed the truth he jumped to hisfeet, shouting excitedly, Antlers! and a tremendouspair, too! We saw that it was no use to dig with our hands,so we found some dry broken limbs and set to M^orkin earnest. The more we dug, the larger grew ourfind, and the greater grew our astonishment, until inan hour or two we had unearthed one of the finesttrophies that the old forest ever yielded up to curi-ous man. It was a gigantic double set of antlers l
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