Litchfield enquirer., 1881-10-20


 we find that Of their stories are truthful, Renfrew deer are not so very different in theil habits and customs from Michigan. Maine or Adirondack deer. They tell us that they (the deer) hardly ever come down into the village street to, be shot, and they even ,disapprove oi our still il hunting with long range q rifles from our hotel balcony. Horrors ], then we have got to go away out into the dismal forest after them, and the forests up here are not like our Washington forests for. they are full of bears and wolves, wildcats, hawks, moose, and everything, bad. The thought fairly makes us shudder, and we go in and kiss our little, families twice all around % and go to. bed oelss..nbA sm..ts
 fs eeQe s7o' MsrHER' HAWAIIAN. asa 6i is.sa
 A night of sweet repose drove away all fear and we arose early in the morning prepared for hard and serious work i; hired a span of horses, tent, cooking utensils, guns, and Tom Scott (not the Railroad King, lto guide and accompany us back to Furguson Lake, twenty miles Northwest from Renfrew, made arrangements to have our wives taken care of at the Dominion house, and started for the scene of slaughter at '.7, a. m..' We found a passable road most of the way, and an oe- casionallog house on the way where some settler has staked his all and establisheda life residence, Noon found us in sight of Fur guson Lake. The last mile of the journey is a''hard road to travel" with swamps to cross, streams to ford, etc. etc. At one o'clock we reached our camping ground on the South western shore of the Lake, and here unex- pected joy awaited us, for within a stone' s throw of the Lake. we found an old settler, a wanderer from the Emerald Isle. Patrick Hanrahan by name. whose whole-souled, gen. erous and hospitable nature, revolted at the idea of our camping out, while he had a,good log cabin and barn to share with us.s "Faith, he says, "It's not often I see the likes of yees out in this haythen wilderness, and (barrin the ould woman) yees are welcome to any and livery blamed thing have. I have 8 deer hound, the likes of which yee'll not find be- twixt this and ould Ireland, and if jist whisper in his ear, he'll put a deer into this lake for yees in the smaller half O thirty min utes. Now do yees go straight into the cabin and put yer guns across the deer horns up out of the children's way, and before ye ken say Jack Robinson, the ould woman II have yees 9 smokin' dinner an cup O bilin' tay. No uQo,r oifhor inS fr int Yee'r own fodder, not while me names Pat Hanrahan. Here, bye, run, run" as fast as iyer yer legs kin carry yees.y and give the gintlemen's harses some hay, and none O yer scrimpin', now mind ye, give lem the full O the manager; and, Johnny, run now, run ye divil ye, and tell yer mother to put the tay- kittle bilin', there's gintlemen here from the states of Ameriky, ,coome all the way to SC e ould Patsy Hanrahan. We'll, well, we'll, I'll be blamed ifseyer thought such a thing could happen An byes, byes, coon in, coon in, and run, Tommy, ye booger, and give Bosy 2 pan q sour milk, and whisper in his ear, and tell him we'll be after givin' him a sniff at a deer as soon as the gintlemin pick their teeth. Hi! ,yll hip, faith. an this is a big day for Patsy Hanrahan. g.. And here's me ould mother, five and ninety years since the day she was born, an she's able to lick the best of lem now, an here's me wife and the mother of me ten children, an she can shake her feet tbis minnit as illigantlyas any O yer bYes and gearls in yer, big City. Coon now Mary, spake to the gintlemin, and make them feel like they were in their own cabin, an barrin yees have no objections, i'll be af- ,ther haulin' up to cup O tay wid ,ye. IT
 A"How, does we be afther gettinga docther here, is 1t Well, well, we'll Mary, do yees hear that now 2, Faith an niver bloody doc ther -aRaddy, now run away with yees. an don't be lookin' at the gintlemin like they was a bear in the oat lot As was sayin', nlver docther put his wicked he'd Tn at Pat BY Hanrahanis door. We have Heaven's pure air, an that's all. we ask for, Faith, an l soW take another cup. Yees brought tay, ; the likes of which niver saw before. Bears, is tit9 Ah, in the winther ye should see them, and ye should see the one that took me ould SOW one night last winter. an ye could hear the sidesof her rippin' liketye were tearin' boards off a barn. Nov away iwid .,ye, ye young raskil or yer tin toes Il be, frosted be. foreye haze yer .peratees ddug.a An'J now, gintlemin, if yee're done the dog is waitin' for ye at the door, an now mind ' A scgar is iii Faith, Mary, an would ye have one ? It's for the like O and the chilthrens that thim E area pleasure to- Irsthe black plug for me ioesy time, and when see the black, sthrrong smoke curlin' up from it. thln is 5 whin ge, pleasure but beiu' as ye eoffered it, Tn take one just the same to remember yebY. ,dt 'An'is it ln yeer country ye have apples Faith, an ye might have livery blamed deer in Ontario an welcome, if yeed only say we might raise, apples Ihere. An! dear,T dear, dear, ,nit's a fine dhrink the juice O sthat same apple makes, an shorter. wud it make many a long Winther's evening whin we sit in this culd cabin wid ice four feet thick on yanthei lake, and alive can listen to is the wind, and the wolves 8, racin' 3 deer, over the top 0, the mountain. And now, Bosey, the gintlemin are ready for ye, and wbegone gwids ye.A And now mind, doys go wid Scott an watch the l runway " above the clearin', and do gs two take that birch canoe, and, d,i and, kinye swim ? An now do ye steer straight for the tall pine or the other shore, an thin paddle as fast as ivel ye kin go to the first five acres above, an ai soon as ye get in the rushes wid yer canoe, wid yerleft ear yell hear the dog coming round the mountain, an mind do ye look straight across the lake, an about three acres above the pint, yell see! the deer comin' ir the wather. Now mind what tell ye, if ye don't 6s'iag home tbdt deer, itH not 6e ase dogs fassh, and if it's 3 buck, and ye wound him, don't ye come to close quarters wid him, ol he'll put his fut through yer birch canoe and yer q go7aer." t'sl1 'sta ''s @