. Rod and gun . ded theplace and deliberately walked under theBoy—reclining in the hammock. Icould have landed them with the his comment. Naturally, someone will ask, wherewas your gun? As a matter of fact wehad a rifle with us—a Lee-Enfield mili-tary rifle, which the Boy had wonat a recent match, and w-hich hewas anxious to try. As deer were ofcourse out of season, and the wolves andbears of his imagination would not showthemselves at the right moment, targetpractice had to content him. This ap-parently led the natives into error. Hear-ing our shots they concluded that veni-son was in
. Rod and gun . ded theplace and deliberately walked under theBoy—reclining in the hammock. Icould have landed them with the his comment. Naturally, someone will ask, wherewas your gun? As a matter of fact wehad a rifle with us—a Lee-Enfield mili-tary rifle, which the Boy had wonat a recent match, and w-hich hewas anxious to try. As deer were ofcourse out of season, and the wolves andbears of his imagination would not showthemselves at the right moment, targetpractice had to content him. This ap-parently led the natives into error. Hear-ing our shots they concluded that veni-son was in order, so that one fine morn-ing a man appeared with a couple ofhounds and invited us to join in a appeared surprised at our refusal,and conducted his hunt alone, happily,being single-handed, securing had heard much of illicit deer hunt-ing during the summer, but was hardlyprepared to find that open hounding wasindulged in. As a further temptation tous he left the dogs in the bush and re-. Rocks Rising One Hundred Feet Sheer from tho Water—Bark Lake. turned to his home. The result was thatall that night the two curs ran deerabout the camp, keeping up a continualtonguing and ending by stealing someof our bacon. They gave us no rest, sothat early in the morning I arose inwrath, and soon the hunters became thehunted. We never saw those dogs a-gain, though their owner appeared oc-casionally. He became quite communi-cative, informing us that he had paid$103 in fines last year for shooting he could not possibly get into hishead was the fact that here in the midstof a grand deer country a gang ofsports (as he termed us) could stayfor a whole summer, existing on can-ed goods when bountiful nature sentvenison to their very door. W^e metmany natives after that, and with noexception they all urged us to shoot a- 658 KUJJ AAJJ LrU.\ li\ \^.\i\r\Ur\ way, protesting that they were not go-ing to tell on us. One morning before daylight, being alight sleeper,
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