Litchfield enquirer., 1881-10-20

died nearer until we were certain of it's iden-
 tity The deer was then about one third
 across, and swimming in an oblique direction up the lake. We pulled heartily. and every
 stroke sent us nearer, until finally the old fellow turned and discovered us He raised
 himself full head, shoulders and breast out of
 water as he glared at us and plunged in an
 opposite direction. We dropped paddles, and Austin gave him. a ball from the old Spencer carbine, borrowed in Renfrew. None of us had had an opportunity to sight our rifles, and the ball struck far, in the rear. The third ball plunped into. his horns and reminded him that he must swim faster. Another pull at the paddles brought us within rifle range again, and then the old carbine refused to ex- tract it's empty shell. Valuable time was here lost and before another shot could be sent, the game was too far out cf reach, and we soon had the modification of seeing him bound on shore and disappear in the woods. aisI | ia |
 He was of a species of deer much larger thar. any we ever: saw in the States. and we coveted that pair of antlers, but ours being a second mortgage we were obliged to allow the first to retain possession. About the time the deer went out of the lake the dog bowsed in where he had entered. We put him on the fresh track immediately and then listened to the music, as the dog, close upon the heels of the flying deer, put him around the lake and around the side of the mountain into another
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 On our gay back to the cabin we h' Ntime to recall pleasant recollections of. the Ticket Agent at Terryville who caused our rift1to be left behig 7 the morning we embarked from
 that station. If we could only have had our
 own rifles in place of the miserable carbines we could not have helped bringing down that deer. Our return to the cabin was greeted with flow of language which the reader can by this time imagine the drift and style of, and many practical suggestions were made by Patsey for our future guidance, "Well,
 well, byes, he would say, there's no use in crying for split milk, until afther yee've milk cd the last COW, and tomorrow mornin' ye'll have another deer in the lake just as good as that one, and now yee's sit right down an tell me all about ye're country. An, it must have been very, very bad man indeed that shot we're President. Faith It would be pleasure to me to see the wolves racin that man about
 the ice on wonder lake,"
 A good share of the evening was spent in side-splitting laughter at the stories told, and
 remarks made by ''mine host" It was not
 however, all idle talk, much of it had it's
 lesson and moral, and left an impression on the mind not easy to forget Mrs. Hanrahan said, 'Ah, the first year I came out into these
 woods to live, didn't much care whither
 lived or died, but soon got over that feeling,
 and now that we have the ten children about us, we're just as happy as God can make us. We know nothing about the comforts of yeer big cities an we care nothing about them.
 None of the younger children ever wint out
 side O these woods an they never saw settle ment or railroad, or any of thim big things" Any person who is troubled with the blues, or is sdiscontented with his lot, we would advise to go and live one week, with this happy family. If he is in debt he can afford to
 borrow more money to go with, and if the old feeling ever returns to him he will look in the glass and say ''John Jones, you are not 1a!f man, you ought to be ashamed of your self" s''f '&tj sVs3i.& s'aa aoA' ..@ yo -. .utral2a:i sst fg s5J4agss- .5 f h.Grt essar1 s''TRY, TRY, AGAIN"una ~isss
 Tuesday evening we caught fish for break fast, took our blankets to the straw loft, and slept till morning. We would like to dwell longer upon our three, days stay here, but space in the Enquirer, we know will not admit oft. Every time we took the dog out he ran in a deer. for us, and, but for our inexpe- rieace and miserable fire arms, we should have bagged several. Thursday noon we completely, surrounded one in the, lake and captured him., A i. singular thing happened the last night aO Our deer hound tracked and
 ran:a strange dog into the lake, just as he woulda deer. We all rushed for hlrn with our guns supposing it to be, wolf, and came very near killing him3 The poor dog was al- most frightened to death The hound was as much surprised as we were, for he evidently took it to be a wild animal Wednesday af- ternoon, we went out and bagged several partridge and unexpectedly ran on to tive deer, gave each 8 shot but lost both. Thurs day afternoon we ,leaded our baggage. and deer and prepared to return to Renfrew, satis-
 fled that we had had a very comfortable, easy and, all things considered, a successful three days hunt, and we only regretted that we
 could not spend another week with our genial host. When our wagon drove away the old
 man really felt bad. "Ah, byes, byes," he said, ..Ill s.niver forget ye, and this time ten
 year, I'll be thinkin of yee's, but this time to-
 morrow, I'll be wishin' I'd niver set eyes on ye, I'll be so lonesome widout ye. But this
 time twelve month, yeell be thinkin' and dhEamln about that big buck in the Lake up
 at ould Patsey Hanrahan's An yes, if God
 spares us all, I'll see yees again, niyer fear. " We stopped occasionally to knock over a
 partridge on the way and joined our little
 families at Renfrew shortly after dark.
 Renfrew, is 8 lively place at this season of
 the year and our wives, during our absence, had had 8 good taste of border life in lum-
 bering country, Renfrew having been the h terminus of the railroad, it has always been
 made the grand starting point for all the lum.
 Der camps in the back country. At this sea- son of the year every evening train brings from
 seyenty-fve to eighty men, and the nextmorn- ing they leave with twelve or fifteen baggage I teams for the camps located from fifty to two lhundred and fifty miles back in the woods.
 The teams go back with them about fifty
 miles, and the remainder of the journey is ac. | comnliahed hv canoein0 ,,n fho loLoo orS