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A HUNTING EXPEDITION. 43 setting off in different directions, cing heard a rifle: shot, vinese then a bark, a long way off. “There goes Tiger!” said Charley, jumping up, and ‘slap- ping his hands together ; and, as they all rushed to the door, Fletcher and the captain ap peated: wet, weary, and silent as the grave. The major asked no questions ; but all could see that he was not a little anxious to know where they had been, and what had happened. “Come ! hurrah, there! hurrah! supper’s ready !”’ shouted the chief cook; and they all turn to, and for half»an “Hour, nothing is to be heard but the clatter of tin-cups, the rustling of birchen plates, the under-growling of the dogs; and the loud breathing of broad-chested men—* full up to here.” At last, having finished their supper, Gage broke silence long enough to tell them about the moose, and where they would find him ; at which the old hunter pricked up his ears and seemed to be most unaccountably moved ; meer then they all turned in for the night. | : CHAPTER YY. ” @-= MYSTERIOUS APPEARANCES—-THE HUNTER HUNTED. THE next day the héayens were cloudless, | the sun exceed- ingly bright, and the sky so blue and clear tliat, although there was little or nothing to do abroad, it was quite impos- sible to stay in camp; and 80, after talking the matter over, it was agreed that all who could be spared—that is, all but Juba, Charley—who managed to get away without leaye—and the cook, should start off on a hunting-expedition, two or three together. Tracks had been met with everywhere—tracks of wal¥eé, and foxes, and cariboo, and some thought of bears, to say néthing of moose-tracks, which were found so plentiful near one “ yard, ” which they did not go near lest the animals should take fright, ag to make the whole neighborhood look like a cattle-yard. comichooks.com