New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-27

TINE clouds had shut down like pail upon the
shoulders of the mountains, and the lake
shrouded in mpenetrabe blackness Carnaby
pushed off from shore for the three-mle row that
Law ahead of him For a few moments the Pickering
light from the cabin window and the whrl of sparks
uprushing from the chimney kept HIM company.
Then projecting point blCtted out the light, and
he was alone in the night except for the loom of the
mountains hand, and the vague shapes of tree
rock the other half seen ugh the veil of rain
1t was hard to leave the rough comfort of the cabin
on such night and harder yet stiff and weary with
three days of Devastating the mountains, pull
a heavy boat six miles but it had to be done, or else
Carnaby stood a chance of losing what he and old
Mackinnon the guide had worked so hard for: the
finest head and horns OF the trip lett cached at the
head of the upper lake
They had shot the buck that morning. and with
heartbrcaking toll and the help of wry rat OF
cavuse brought it down the mountain to the shore
OF the upper lake intending there to strike homcWard
by the trail but the tail OF the day Macs foot had
turned spraining his ankle badly and making neces-
sary for the pony another burden than the deer's
head and its siN-oot spread of antler
Now Carnaby was going back for it in the big boat
leaving Mac basking before the big fire in the cabin
smoking the pipe of afer-oil, and nursing his
game leg. The comfortable picture, as Carnaby
thought of it. made the night colder and the
rain weter, but did no more than tempt him That
head with magnificent horns should rest safe the
cabin before he did that Carnaby
1t took half hour of stiff pulling before Carnaby
reached the channel that connected the lower
with the upper lake and over that before the
noise of the rushing water and a vague wilderness
ahead told him that he had reached the mouth of
the stream where it in sNirling and foaming
with its long race down the mountain from its birth
place in the five thousand feet above.
Here Carnabv pulled the boat up the Single
and after deal of blind cropping and stumbling he
found the pile of and the branches under which
he had cached his trophy four hours before. The
cache undisurbed Carnaby Joyfully noted
and he set work disinterring it. That the
cas- part; the hard when he attempted to get
1t down to the boat and the antlers caught on every
insignificant sapling and hung in every smallest
bush but by dint of muscle and perseverance he
got it there last and slowed safely in the stern
the great formidable horns spreading outward across
the thwarts, each one armed with upward pointing
spikes polished bayonet points, almost as sharp
and equally as dangerous fight when the head that
bore them proudly alive Woe betidc the rival
who attempted the desires of this lord of the
forest. And yet he Carnaby animal not tenth
part strong and swift had laid this monarch low
and was happy with the happiness of the successful
man. The long, weary days the mount aims, the
stalking that made every bone in his body ache the
living out in the cold rain the bruises and from
tagged rocks the dead, utter fatigue night, seemed
nothing in the JOY OF accomplishment.
With the cessation of his labor Carnaby became
conscious that he chilled the marrow, his hands
too numb unlooscn the strings of his tobacco
pouch, and his teeth Jiggng away like Castanets
The prospect of that long pull back to camp up
before him with anything except aluring distinct
ness 1t was useless though, to attempt fire there
in the open. and he about to make the best he
could of the situation when he remembered that a
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