Identifier: throughwildsreco00farrrich (find matches)
Title: Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Farrar, Charles Alden John, d. 1893
Subjects: New Hampshire -- Description and travel Maine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ft the hotel about eight oclock. Thepath was very good and quite plain, and in anhour and a half they reached the road, and fol-lowed the shore around to the outlet, whereGeorge and Ned began fishing. Dick and theParson then started off in quest of game. Dickleft his axe with the fishermen, telling them thatif troubled by flies, they could build a smudge.The lunch also was left, and George advised thegunners, if they did not wish to get left on thedinner question, to put in an appearance by noon.This the boys promised, and struck off into theforest. Now, what are we to shoot? queried Dick,as he and Fred left the pond. Anything we come across ? Yes, anything wecan eat, except squir-rels or rabbits. I dontlike to shoot rabbits,because, if you onlywound them, they wnllsit up on their haunchesand cry so piteously. I popped at one with a revolver once, andonly wounded it, and had to fire three or four times more before Ikilled it. I would not shoot another unless I were starving. Squirrels
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IN THE FOREST. THROUGH THE WILDS. ■ 141 we probably should not eat, as the only kind about here are chip-munks ; and between you and me, Dick, I dont care to shoot asquirrel just for the purpose of killing it. I think its mean. So do I, assented Dick; and the little rogfues are so cunninpf, Ilike to see them playing in the trees. I tell you what we will do; make the circuit of the pond, a shortdistance from the shore, and we may come across some partridgesor deer. I should not wonder if deer came into this pond sometime. All right; go ahead. The two boys now made their way carefully through the woods,keeping at a distance of about four rods from the pond. Occasionallythey stopped and inspected the ground in search of deer tracks, andwhen they had travelled about a mile they found two or three printsof deers hoofs in a path which intersected their course, and followingthese closely, they soon reached the pond. But no deer were in sight,and they heard no noise but the buzz of the merc

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