. Rod and gun. but we were soon on our way amusing incident occurred a shortdistance farther on. Gordon who hadcharge of the gun, landed to take a•shot at some ducks which we couldsee around a bend in the river ducks saw him land and ilcw right towards us; Gordon droppedon one knee and raised the gun; welistened for the report but none came;the ducks Hew gaily away and the airwas thick with exclamations. Msionsof broiled duck for tea faded as thehunter ruefully examined the gunwhich was a repeater and to which hewas not accustomed. After a fewpointers upon shooting from alls
. Rod and gun. but we were soon on our way amusing incident occurred a shortdistance farther on. Gordon who hadcharge of the gun, landed to take a•shot at some ducks which we couldsee around a bend in the river ducks saw him land and ilcw right towards us; Gordon droppedon one knee and raised the gun; welistened for the report but none came;the ducks Hew gaily away and the airwas thick with exclamations. Msionsof broiled duck for tea faded as thehunter ruefully examined the gunwhich was a repeater and to which hewas not accustomed. After a fewpointers upon shooting from allsides, we took him on board and pad-dled on. We got a couple of smallbass wliich came in very nicely lateron, but as we lost our troll at theLittle Chute we got no big ones. Inthe meantime down came the rainagain, but as the banks were mostunsuitable for camping we paddledon, until eventually we found a nicelittle patch of dry sand under sometrees at the foot of the Big Eddyrapids. The Big Eddy is a pool about. Sunday Camp at Buckskin 812 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA three hundred yards across, circidarin shape and apparently ^ery heard afterwards that it is sup-posed to be about the best fishingspot on the river, but as we had nobait we had no way of conhrmingthis. The last couple of miles beforewe reached here, we saw a great manydeer runways, leading to the water,and that evening as I he fire burnedup we heard a crashing of branchesacross the pool and the noise of someanimal making off through the on we heard a lot of rustlingin the bushes just behind the tent,but after a little chaffing on thequestion of scares, we paid no atten-tion to it. Next morning there weredeer tracks plainly to be seen in thesand, within one hundred feet of thetent, leading from the bushes to theriver. No doubt this pool was afavorite drinking spot for the deer asit is lonely enough. We were therefor two days without seeing a saw partridge, ducks, owls, fish,eagles and black sq
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