Litchfield enquirer., 1877-10-04

and all finally bragged themselves tc
 sleep. 9Atfsixa.i pa. (Conuecticut time,
 lNe were astir. Hearing that lumber man'ss sTote Train would pass near us
 this morning, 9ess route for West Branct fof load of provisions, we hastily wrote letters home and David and Daniel went
 ous s9iO head of the team, but found it had
 passed some time before Something
 must be done. All our stock of butter
 beans. pork, &c., was at the Branch (it
 had not arrived when we left there) se
 Daniel immediately volunteered to foot il out there and back. This would make
 him about 40 miles travel, but he fell
 equal to the task. We all wished him
 good lnck and forward he pushed.
 We were all surprised. this morning, al
 Sol9mon's rough. backwood,s look wher
 heApDeared among us. All tha sloas and
 polish wus gone. The 'biled" shirt had
 disappeared. and an its place was heavy
 hunting shirt and other clothing to match
 He didn't look so much better than the rest ofus. and we forgot all our old ieal.
 ousies. begged forgivness for numerous
 unkiDd jests. We are sorry now we said any thing about it in our other letter, and
 if he kills the first deer we shall give him credit for it just the same as though he never had Vorn billed shirt and been the favofite with the ladies on the cars all the
 way from Connecticut to West Branch.
 He is on the war path this morning, in dead earnest and is knocking over par tridges, fIght and left, in trout of camp at this present moment. and ready to scalp any wild Indian that may cross his tracks aIoas a0 l.8 4ui. Enough cartridges were brought in for dinner. .after which one party went picking crsnbel ries. of which there is an abund- ance around the edge of the Lake. Da- vid and myself went on an exploring ex. pedition around it. We found fresh deer tracks everywhere, and, at the south end, 8 swamp that was evidently their favorite pasture, for every square yard seemed to be trodden down. There were also un- mistakable signs of bear. Noon found us all dining on friccaseed partridge and sauce. It was the first good square warm meal we had had since we made such raid on the Grand Union restaurant in New York.
 Hill came in after dinner, sad he had started two deer. shot at one and missed it. A4 p. m. Sim, Phil and Hill, went put on the lake trolling for pickerel, they ,aught seven ina very few minutes, the argest of which was about three feet org. and they could easily have taken nore, but those were all we could use. expect there was great excitement in hat boat when those big fish came fioun- aefiDg in. Hill says he could easily have lnn sihSS Aii hfs a grs5afyi sRafiIis HEsook at himl9 Catch himl'' s'Save himp' ''Save him" Back water!p Look outl'' ''Take arer' He swung his paddle twice round and knocked Hills hat of, nd struck Sim stunning blow on he back of the hand; and as soon as the id pickeref was hauled over the side of he. boat, he seized him by the back and ,roke his neck with his tomahawk, for ear heswonld lash around and upset, or 'reak through the side of the boat. Just before dark, Sol, Dave, Tim and myself, vent ont couple of miles to s'stlll-hunt' or deer, i. e. station ourselves on one of heir regular thoroughfares and wait for hem to pass. But. Oh, the mosquitoes Fe found out therel They never had hold 'f downright green yankee. before and he way they went for us is very funny to elate. but decidedly the opposite to ex- 'erience. Of conrse if we expected leer to come that way it was necessary hat we should stand like marble statuary, nd to do that under the circumstances vas utterly impossible. If deer had 'ome within a radius of 100 rods he could 'asily have heard that slap, slap; which vas the death knell of just so many mos- luitos as our brawny hands could cover. Pretty soon David came along remarking; T wouldn't stay here another halt-hour, or all the deer in Northern Michigan" We all coincided and put for camp, find- ng all the boys in and supper waiting. Cranberry s,ucs had to take the place of butter, but it was not bad substitute. Cook had haked some nice light bread in he oven before the fire.
 We had just finished supper and were fitting around our blazing campfire tell ng our experiences of the day and laying plans for the morrow when in glided our 'ld veteran, Daniel. He had been to the Branch and back, distance of 40 miles 'ince o'clock in the morning, but lucki. y overlook the Tote Team and got .ide of about 15 miles. He had made to have our butter. beans, Ec,s come out by the next Tote Team.
 Sages Lake twhefe there is lumber nan's Oamp) lies about six miles east of as anal thsir prosision team must pass aeafionr Lake, s0 we shall get our SUD- plies sooRaa Ws made Arrangements to go out with Old Billy and his dogs in the morning for another deer hunt.
 little after midnight we bad quite } little Bear scare. Some large object ,ouid. be distinctly heard moving lbout the cabin; pretty soon it went ,nt the door and moved of towards the ake. We sprang out of bed, made quiet reconoisance which revealed the fact that Jnlius had arisen quietly without notify anyone and was taking little midnight walk about camp. We didn't shoot him.
 At six next morning, after having a good breakfast of pickerel, we went with Old Billy for. deer. The dogs started Dne in about 16 minutes but he put of to the west out of our reach. Two more were started and blood was drawn on one