. Rod and gun. ging to the Major as itrained all the time, the rain being ac-companied by a terrific wind. Never-theless we kept on the go notwith-standing rain and wind, though weknew it was very little use looking forbig game in wet weather. As it wastljen too late for calling on the oldbirch bark we found it necessary tostill hunt, or stalk, as they call it inthe north of Scotland. One dark stormy night about 12oclock we were startled to hear a cry: Help, help, she is down. The voice came from the directionof the big tent. Major No. 1 andMajor No. 3 had gone to sleep in thistent for the nig
. Rod and gun. ging to the Major as itrained all the time, the rain being ac-companied by a terrific wind. Never-theless we kept on the go notwith-standing rain and wind, though weknew it was very little use looking forbig game in wet weather. As it wastljen too late for calling on the oldbirch bark we found it necessary tostill hunt, or stalk, as they call it inthe north of Scotland. One dark stormy night about 12oclock we were startled to hear a cry: Help, help, she is down. The voice came from the directionof the big tent. Major No. 1 andMajor No. 3 had gone to sleep in thistent for the night while Major No. 2bunked in the camp with the cook, theother guide and myself. Majors 1and 3 had said that they preferred thefresh air of the tent to sleeping incamp. At the call for help we all tumbledout of our berths and seizing, one alamp, another a candle and still an-other a lantern, rushed round thecorner of the camp to find Major coming in to the camp evidently onthe hunt for Major No. 3, whom to. Ihe Cook, the Writer, and Major No. 2 in tlie Centre on Forked Lake our great surprise and anuiscnienl hefound under one of our berths, laugh-ing to l<ill himself. About an hourbefore the squall had struck the lentMajor No. .5 thinking that it was get-ting rather rough got up quietly andwithout making any noise that wouldwaken Major No. 1 took his good oldsleeping bag with him and went intocamp where he stowed himself awayunder one of our berths and wentpeacefully to sleep. Major No. 1laughed good-naturedly at the de-serter and spent the remainder of thenight with i;s. Next morning we were up longbefore daylight and to tlie delignt ofus all it was a fine morning and therain having passed and the skycleared there had been a good doing to-day was theunanimous verdict. Just before day-break we struck out. Major No. 1with John and Majors No. 2 and with me. Cruising along untildinner time we got no tame althoughwe saw quite a few moose with ourfield g
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