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AWAY IN THE WILDERNESS.
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“ There’s bears up the river,” said the Indian,
as they were leaving.
“ Have ye seen them ?” inquired Jasper.
“ Ay, but could not shoot—no powder, no
ball. Look out for them !”
“ That will I,” replied the hunter, and in
another moment the canoe was out among the
rapids again, advancing slowly up the river.
In about an hour afterwards they came to a
part of the river where the banks were high and
steep. Here Jasper landed to look for the tracks
of the bears. He soon found these, and as they
appeared to be fresh, he prepared to follow them up.
“ We may as well encamp here,” said he to
Arrowhead ; “ you can go and look for the bears.
I will land the baggage, and haul up the canoe,
and then take my gun and follow you. I see that
our friend Heywood is at work with his pencil
already.”
This was true. The keen artist was so delighted
with the scene before him, that the moment the
canoe touched the land he had jumped out, and,
seating himself on the trunk of a fallen tree, with
book and pencil, soon forgot everything that was
going on around him.
Arrowhead shouldered his gun and went away
up the river. Jasper soon finished what he had
to do, and followed him, leaving Heywood seated
on the fallen tree.