. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . the skiff, and directly inline with it, so thatwhat was visible to the Doctor was also visible to the boys. Soon the horns of a line buck were plainly perceptible in the rays oflight from the candle, and they seemed to the boys more like the deadbranches of a tree than the ornaments and pride of a living animal. Theskiff and the canoe were propelled without the least sound, and not evenwith a ripple of the water. The guides did not lift the paddles to thesurface or allow them to touch the sides of the boats, and the whole op-eration was
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . the skiff, and directly inline with it, so thatwhat was visible to the Doctor was also visible to the boys. Soon the horns of a line buck were plainly perceptible in the rays oflight from the candle, and they seemed to the boys more like the deadbranches of a tree than the ornaments and pride of a living animal. Theskiff and the canoe were propelled without the least sound, and not evenwith a ripple of the water. The guides did not lift the paddles to thesurface or allow them to touch the sides of the boats, and the whole op-eration was so perfectly performed that not even the boys in the canoecould hear the least sound to indicate that Bill was with them. Nearer and nearer to the buck went the skiff. The animal becamesuspicious, and paused to look at the light that came streaming over thewater. His alarm ceased for a moment, and he renewed his feeding,which gave Jim an opportunity to approach more nearly. Again thebuck raises his head, and this time he throws back his horns and gazes. THK DOCTOH S 1J1CKI;. 180 THE YOUNG NIMKODS. more earnestly than before. There is danger near, and lie thinks it wellto flee, but, with the curiosity peculiar to all members of the deer family,he will have another look at the strange light. Now is the Doctors chance—now or never, as the deer will be gonein another moment. The rifle is raised, and the next instant the echoesof the lake are awakened by the report. The shot was well aimed, andthe buck has fallen in the water. The stillness was ended with the report of the rifle. Jim drops hispaddle and resumes the oars, and he pulls with all his might to where thepride of the forest is struggling in the water. Bill dashes forward withthe canoe, and comes in on-one side of the deer, while Jim approaches onthe other. Jim draws his knife and cuts the throat of the struggling an-imal, and in a few minutes the deer has been transformed to venison. It is no light work to get their priz
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