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Title: The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Révoil, Bénédict Henry, 1816-1882 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, New York : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ry medal has its reverse in this world ;the to-day of pleasure is succeeded by the to-morrow ofanguish. As the night crept on, the old negro felt thecold piercing to his very bones. In vain, he sought togain a moments repose: if the bow abandoned thestrings of the violin, the cayeutes dashed themselvesagainst the sides of the hut; if, on the contrary, he con-tinued to wander through the maze of harmony, thesenovel dilettanti seated themselves on their hind-quarters,their bushy tails stretched out upon the snow, their earspricked up, their tongues pendent from their open jaws;and they followed, with a measured cadence of the headand body, every rhythm which flowed from old Dicksviolin. While this fantastic scene, illuminated by the silverbeams of the moon, was being enacted in the open plain,the negroes who awaited the arrival of their comradeto begin the bridal festivities, grew angrily impatient,though unable to account for the unusual delay of one so (4U) 5 66 WHERE IS OUR FIDDLER ?
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THE OLD MUSICIAN MAINTAINED WITHOUT CESSATION HIS CONCERT. scrupulously punctual. At lengtli, after a long and fruit-less discussion of a subject which no one could clear up, HELP AT HAND. G7 six set forth from the house on an expedition of discovery,and arriving near the cabin on whose roof Dick was souncomfortably mounted, they discovered a horde ofwolves on harmony intent. The old musician maintainedwithout., cessation his compulsory concert, his eyes fixedupon his mortal enemies. Immediately the six negi^oes uttered a simultaneouscry, and the carnivorous audience, startled into a panicof terror, thought of nothing but flight. In the twinklingof an eye every one had vanished, and the musician,frozen and half dead, fell fainting into the arms of hissaviours. His frizzled hair, which, despite of his old age,was black as jet that evening when he performed hisfastidious toilette, had, in the space of a couple of hours,turned white as the snow which lay in glittering massesall around. A

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