We had heard of the shanty in which we were to encamp, and we rowed straight through the whole length of the lake towards it.

" "Well," continued Martin, as he lighted his pipe by dipping it into the embers and scooping up a small coal; "Well, Mark Shuff and a friend of his by the name of Westcott, had a shanty one winter over on Tupper's Lake; they were trappin' martin, and mink, and muskrat, and wolves, when they could get one.

There wasn't any house then nearer than Harriets Town, down by the Lower Saranac; but there was a company of lumbermen having a shanty up towards the head of the lake, near where the Bog River enters.

Mark, one cold winter's morning, started on an errand to the lumber shanty I speak of, calculatin' to return the same evening.

Towards evening, we rowed back to our shanty.

I set his shoulder as well as I could, and, after takin' the skin off the bear, I backed him two miles to my shanty.

We got him safely to the landing at last, and tumbling him into the bottom of one of the boats, started down stream towards our shanty.

We had now accomplished one of the objects of our journey in this direction, and as the law we had imposed upon ourselves had reached its limits, prohibiting our shooting another moose that day, even should an opportunity occur, we concluded to return to our shanty, on the lake below.

The shanty was built of logs, on three sides, the crevices between which were filled with moss, and the sloping roof neatly covered with bark, in layers, like an old-fashioned roof, covered with split shingles.

This fire-place was three or four feet high, and served an excellent purpose, with reference to our cookery, and the lighting of our shanty at night.

On one of these islands we found indications of its being inhabited by wood rabbits, and we sent Cullen to the shanty for the dogs to course them, not however with any intention of capturing them, but to enjoy the music of the chase, and hear the voices of the hounds echoing over the water.

We had dispatched Cullen to the shanty to prepare dinner for us by six o'clock, at which hour we were to be at home.

They had seen our campfire from their shanty on the other side of the lake, and had crossed over to surprise us with the melody of human music.

We accepted, at parting, their invitation to breakfast with them on the morrow, and at one o'clock they left us to return to their shanty over the lake.

We left our tents standing, and crossed over to the shanty of our friends of the previous evening to breakfast.

Their two boatmen had built them a log shanty; open in front, and covered with bark so as to be impervious to the rain, while within was a luxurious bed of boughs.

The description which we gave of the beautiful lake we had left the day before, the story of the moose and the bear we had killed, together with our quit-claim of the shanty we had, inhabited, brought our friends to the conclusion to drift that way for a week or so.

Wal, one afternoon, we put up a shanty in an open spot two miles from our regular campin' ground, and built our fire for the night.

Well, one day I spoke to Crop to stay by the shanty and take care of the things, while I went to find out who it was that was medlin' with our property, and started off on my line of traps.

I came down from my perch, and took the gentleman to the shanty and added his hide to those of the martins I'd taken.

Then, as his health became worse and worse, he was ordered to live in the country (that was in 1868), and as the young couple had scarcely any money they were glad to get a little shanty on the stony hill which is now the corner of Eighty-first Street and Lexington Avenue and is the site of a modern apartment-house.

" They both thought of his father, and the vanished days of the shanty on the hillside, and his mother thought: "People must live out their own lives in their own homes.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (PWH); 6Jan69; R452520. RORKE, LOUISE R. Sugar shanty.

In sheer desperation, Charlton took the right-hand road, not doubting that he could at least find shelter for the night in some settler's shanty.

The best proof that it was not a deserted claim-shanty!