Part 17 (2/2)
”For all we know, the boat ish Lake,” re the repast ”I see nothing for us to do but to walk along the lake shore and keep our eyes open”
”Shall we take our traps along?” asked the doctor ”I can carry the cook stove if you can divide the rest of the stuff a certain the boat had gone down the lake, if anywhere, it was decided by all hands to pack the outfit and take it along The packing took some time, and when the start wasthe sky as bright as one could wish
A mile of the shore had been covered when Foster Portney called a halt and directed attention to an object floating in the direction from which they had come ”It's a boat!” he cried, a erly
”I can't say” Mr Portney and the others watched the craft with interest ”No, it's not our boat, but another, and there are several people on board”
”Let's hail 'eit 'em to search for the _Wild Goose_,” said Captain Zoss, and they walked back, and after so the attention of the party on the water There were threethe same they had met in camp at Lake Linderman To all the newcomers Foster Portney told his story
”O' course we'll help you,” said the it aboard here, and we'll cruise around the lake on a hunt Ain't got room ferye?”
”I aht ez well do the trick, fer Lizy here don't feel extry well, an' it will be fair play fer you to give her some medicine, I take it”
”I'll do what I can for her,” said the doctor ”But most of my ot ter find her, sure pop, fer Lizy does feel most distressin' like, with a pain in her head an' a crick in her back,” went on Wodley, the miner
The doctor hopped on board, and after a feords more the boat set off in search of the _Wild Goose_, and the hunt from the lake shore was continued Slowly the forenoon wore away and still nothing was seen of thesince been lost to view up the lake
It was getting toward supper time when Foster Portney turned to Earl, who, in addition to soht a glance of so yonder rocks,” he said ”If you can, youbefore all of us ant soh to try his hand at hunting, and turned over his traps to his co the rocks to which his uncle had pointed He had not gone over five hundred feet when he beheld a s at him in alarone behind a neighboring cliff
Feeling moderately sure that this was the anio far, but an to cli the rocks, and these afforded hih hemmed in on three sides byin that direction he saw, far to the opposite shore, the boat containing Dr Barwaithe and their newly made friends He watched the boat for a minute, when a clatter of sharp hoofs on the cliff ht of the deer His gun cae took the animal full in the breast
Struck in this fashi+on, many an animal would have rolled over dead But the deer of Alaska, which are growing h terribly wounded, this speci for a brief moment, he turned and then fled in the direction from which he had coaaht him almost to the end of the cliff, and he discovered the deer crouched in the shelter of the rocks, its dark eyes glaring angrily Up caed just as the ani little harm, and the next instant the wounded beast was upon the boy
CHAPTER XVIII
ON TO THE WHITE HORSE RAPIDS
For a brief instant, as the deer rushed upon hi had no idea that the wounded ani eyes came closer and the antlers were lowered, he realized that so must be done, and leaped to the inner side of the narrow cliff
Crash!+ the deer had struck him on the arm It was a heavy blow, and only the sharp rock to one side of him saved the youth from serious injury
Then, as the aniun, pressed it at the deer's breast, and sent the beast tuulch below It was done so rapidly that the animal had no time to save itself It went doith a crash and a dull thud, and, looking over the rocks, the boy saw that it lay on its back unable to run off on account of a broken leg As soon as he could, he reloaded the shot-gun and put his game out of its !” he half ht descend to the bottoulch A quarter of an hour later he had the deer bound on top of a tree branch, and was dragging it toward the lake shore
”A deer!” cried Randy and Foster Portney, siht of the prize ”Well, that orth going after!” continued the latter