Our boatman built for our accommodation, a brush shanty in the place of our tents.

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.

On the point where we now are, long ago, was the log shanty of a hunter and fisherman, surrounded by an acre or two of cleared land.

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.

Towards evening we returned to our shanty with abundance of fish for supper and breakfast, taken, as I said, in simply trying experiments as to where they were to be found in the greatest abundance.

With us were to go two staid and sober stag hounds, grave in aspect and trained and experienced, almost, in woodcraft, as their masters; animals that had been reared together, and who possessed the rare instinct of returning always to the shanty from which they started, however far the chase may have led them.

On the way back they stopped before a dilapidated shanty near the foothills.

The Siner home was a three-room shanty about midway in the semicircle.

In one cage he has a young hawk, which he has just captured; in another, a couple of squirrels, which have become so tame that he can allow them to run about the shanty without the least fear of their attempting to escape.

She had come so far on her journey that she could never be able to get back to Thatcher nor even to Duff's shanty before dark.

He is passionately fond of pets, and he has a pole shanty behind the museum, which he keeps well stocked with animals and birds.

And for three months, while the big strike of the engineers was in progress, Holroyd, who was a blackleg, and Azuma-zi, who was a mere black, were never out of the stir and eddy of it, but slept and fed in the little wooden shanty between the shed and the gates.

And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop docile and omnipotent At its own stable door.

At long intervals we have passed a few board shanties like card houses grouped together near the track; just fancy living there, Mamma!

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.

"I hoped for a minute that you could do it, but now I remember the way he was in that dark shanty up the Bald-eagle Creek.