Year: 1877

water. aWeburn't' small coal.pit to. day and dug up some white sand and

 have manufactured filter, so wehope1 to

 have better water in the future. 5su7fsss Q l At4 p. m., Phillip, David and Timothy

 went out again for deer. We had the

 usual luck, caught glimpse Of two ot

 three, but they seem to. be altogether

 too quick for us Connecticut Yankees.

 The next thunder shower that comes up

 we propose to have little rife practice,

 with chain lightning for a target. After

 making few ''bulls- eyes" in this way,

 We ffatter ourselves that we can successful-

 ly hunt wild deer, This (Saturday) evening

 our butter, lard, and beans, arrived

 Cook went to work immediately and dug

 a hole in the ground and started pot of

 beans baking for Sunday. It was cloudy

 and there v as little rain in the early

 part of the evening but it came of clear

 and bright before bedtime. , 1T ls6.aar , Saturday night passed of harmonious- lE Sunday morning came with it's more

 than our usaal homelike quiet. Our sick

 were now on the gain. The sun shone

 out bright and cheerful; not a breath of

 air moved the tops of the great pine

 trees about us; not a ripple broke the mir

 TOT like surface of the little lake at our feet. Our rifles and shot guns were si-

 lently resting in the corner of the log

 house. Our camp, and all about us seem-

 ed to realize that this was a day of sol.

 smn rest. No Sabbath morning bells greeted us here. We had no hunting or camp duties to occupy our time and thoughts. and each face plainly told that

 its owner was thinking of home and friends. We now had time I think to take in the first realizing sense of our sit.

 nation. Here in the heart of this great

 forest, 1000 miles from home and miles

 away from any human being except an occasional Moss-Back (the name the old

 resident hunters go by here, and they have really no right to be classed as human beings). It seemed very fit and becoming that each of our nine faces should at this particular time show, deep and earnest thought. Unluckily for our Sabbath

 morning reveries (but luckily for our lar der) flock of fine partridge flew into the pines in front of our door. We shall leave what followed for your readers to guess. Suffice it to say, we ate good dinner of partridge as reverently as we ever ate our Sunday dinner at home. At the usual hour for morning service we assem. bled in our log chapel and listened to the reading by our chaplain of an excellent sermon from the text, Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavily laden and will refresh youl" '.0y5+

 After dinner. as is the custom in Old Judea, we took little Sunday afternoon but one or two of the boys thought it was exceedingly rash and unsafe to travel in thls wild country unarmed. One party went as far as Rife river, started deer or two. but as it was Sunday and their rifles were only taken for self. defense, didn't kill them. Another par- ty of us went East about two miles and discovered another Lake. With the ex- ception of eating supper pretty much of our time was occupied until bedtime in writing letters. Don't know when we shall have chance to mail them. I..l,e

 Monday morning all hands. but the Cook, and Cookee, went out for deer hunt; had quite an exciting chase; wound. ed one, but lost him, of course. We brought in all kinds of small game, such as partridge, owls, squirrels. pigeons. woodpeckers, ducks. &c., &c. Dave, Phil. Tim, and Julius discovered beau- tiful little lake mile or so north.eas of camp. They showed out on log few rods from shore. baited hook with a chunk of pork, and soon had nice string of bass. After dinner another squad went over and built raft. We expect to have some capital fishing here, for we find no signs of human encroachment anywhere about the lake.

 Sim went still-hunting at the foot of our lake, shot and severely wounded fine buck, traced him by the blood long distance through the underbush, but he finally entered tangie which it was inn possible to penetrate and he lost him. Just at sunset, we went ont and caught a mess of fish. Sunset on one of these west. ern lakes is indeed glorious sight. -hss

 Tuesday morning, we had the first frost of the season, damage to pine timber is very light, but mosquitoes must have sui. fered terribly, last night. Their bills are just one eighth of an inch shorter. by act ual measurement than before. They have lost all their accustomed hawk like pounce, Il and they rise from their victim as though they had bag of shot under each wing. One squad went hunting. another to our newly discovered lake for bass and cran- berries. Julius started for camp with the cfanberries and fish, while we went in seaorh of another lake said to be only ashort distance away. but could not find it. We lost our bearings and became lost our- selves, but brought around into. camp with only mile or two extra tramping. Julius should have been in two or three hours before, but dinner hour came, and two o'clock came, and no Juliusi We knew he must be lost, so sent out search CTS. fired guns &c. at camp. We began to feel really alarmed for his safety. had nothing. but his hunting hatchet with him. The woods are SO dense here that a person might wander within fifteen rods of the lake or camp and not know it. un- less he heard some sound there We kept up constant firing at camp, and fin ally Julius made his appearance, he had been wandering about for several hours,

 had lost his bearings completely. and. in the course of his travels. .g he had come