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[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by Jaxs Evanson, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D, 0.)
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— VoL. VII. Publishers and SPRUCE St. PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 2, 1887. TERMS: {FiY Sovancn. No. 18.
in books, we didn’t care to shoot any | she hadn’t a glimpse of the boat or of us, | struggling, and, lying on her side as she
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i : : CAMP VAGABOND : ie year bee’ came about, was this : being gazzted with the reflection of the | was, raised her head and looked me full 4
i e e ve had visited the | jack. en she actually took tw si i < : :
} o LOST N oF, Rangelies, with Lo a three older rela- forward. They were heplact, nwosiePs tyes. face with her great, meek brown : :
3 S Oo UMBAGOG. |! ves, and had “floated” for deer, with Nervously taking aim, I fired, and when “Git out!" shouted i
: . ~ immense enthusiasm. Rod got a shot ata | the smoke cleared away, we saw the raising his shining oo te ade ons ‘
; L — nee oe jind missed iim. The very bushes waving, where the poor thing was | have her in a minute!” : i
“fe va ark as pitch. e | struggling in her agony. There, it always inak
i BY WILLIS BOYD ALLEN, had been fidgeting all day for the sun to The guide drew his knife and put the | to. tell that story. Ths fellows got it.all :
i -4 fant at nine © aoe of 1 we started. in boat into fhe reeds. In another moment | out of me, when we reached the camp i
j y aide in my boat | we were beside . i Jody . - aH
f ; i CHAPTER I. stopped paddling, and gave that peculiar « doe. She stopped | with the body of the doe, ‘They looked 4
por “Now, look here, Ned, if you don’t be- little jerk to the gunwale of the boat that '
; : lieve in this expedition, you can just stay sends the blood tingling to your finger- nyt
} i at home and read Virgil!” tips, for it means ‘‘Deer!’’ t
t al “You k very well that 7° t I turned the jack slowly onto the banks ot
F ou know very we! m up to | of the Narrows, where we were pad- :
' 5 that sort o’ thing as much as any of you | dling, and sure enough there was - F
i 2 fellows,” replied Ned, with dignity. | doe, not half a dozen rods ~ a
| i ’ “Only it’s all nonsense to rush off to the away ankle deep in the
: woods in the dead of winter, without Si aa t
i i looking the dangers in the face v” amyl looked. ne dead \ . i
i Ned was always the conservative force | thé light, blink- ~ Canal ; ‘ + - ~ a
. ] in our Parliament, and we were pretty | ing.slightly. Pees NAS :
i well used to his grumblings and croak- | Of course, Ao NS eye 2) 4
3. So we just put a clothes-basket f % ees ‘
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~ over his head ‘and sat down on him a
z while, until, after a tremendous scramble
all round, he emerged, red and breath-
jess from kicking and laughing, and, as
ae was.usual on such treatment, agreed with
: the majority-“said majority consisting of
i Dick May, Rodney Bigelow and myself.
i Ned and I were brothers.
i “There,” panted Rod, who was chair-
t man pro tem., “the member on the right
i . having withdrawn his objection, we will
; proceed to put the question, which is this:
Shali we.four, known among ourselves
and a select circle of acquaintances as
‘The Vagabonds,’ spend the first week of
January next in the Rangeley woods,
eamping out, without a guide? ‘All those
opposed say ‘No.’ ”” .
(Silence, with threatening glances at
Ned.
«Those in favor, holler!’
«“Ki-yif Hooray! Yahoo! Tey—
hoop I . .
“There is no doubt as to the sentiment
seeting,” remarked the chairman,
wiping his brow, | Now for an informal
discussion of details.” . “
: . The result of the conference was, that
A on the afternoon of the second day of
: . January a group of four boys, averaging
é . sixteen’ years of age, were gathered on
the platform of the little station at Bethel,
Maine, earnestly and vocally superintend-
ing the removal of half a dozen good-
sized boxes and bundles from the bag-
gage-car. The boys wore fur caps, mit-
tens, and thick, short overcoats, or ‘* pea-
jackets,” and danced up and down on the
i - snowy planks, partly to keep their feet
j warm and partly because they were so
full of “good time” that they couldn’t
} keep still. .
: Tn five minutes more the train had
i puffed away toward Montreal, and the
4 “ merry “ Vagabonds”’ were seated in a
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ox-sleigh, bound for Upton.
We had changed our plans slightly, I
: ought to say, and decided to camp near
; Lake Umbagog, rather than go further on
; to the real Rangeley district. One of the
to principal reasons for our doing this was
3 the abundance of pickerel in Umbagog.
q We knew that as long as we were on the
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shores of the lake, we were sure of plenty
- to eat, although we depended largely on
our stock of home stores for the commis-
sary department. .
i Now, boys, don’t turn up your noses,
- when I tell you that, unlike most fellows
¥ ORDINARY STRENGTH, IT SEEMED, I SWUNG THE AXE AND BROUGHT IT DOWN ON THE 8NARLING HEAD OF THE ANIMAL.”
“WITH TWICE M
ApEn Wa EI EIEN LO RE SAI,
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