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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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t the spot, when a Yankee peasant, advancing to-wards us, proposed to deliver the fugitive into our handsif we would give him a couple of dollars for his trouble. We looked at one another, and, without uttering aword, I drew the coins from my purse, and handed themto the American. ** There, said he, look up in that tree, and you maysee his tail hanging out of yonder crows nest ! It was true. The racoon had leapt on the parapet of thebridge; from thence had darted to the trunk of the tree;then, with the help of his claws, had ascended to an emptycrows nest, and concealed himself inside it—forgetting,poor simpleton ! that his long striped tail would betray theasylum where he had sought refuge. Undoubtedly thisretreat must have been familiar to him; and everythingled us to believe that he had at one time been the fellmurderer of the progeny of the crow. I must add that thecunning animal met with no mercy at our hands, but wasoffered up as a sacrifice to the manes of the young victims I
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CHAPTEE VIL THE SWAN—THE HERON—THE FALCON.

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