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 of him. If he finds the low lands getting too warm for him, he will take to the mountains; and you know that there are a good many places among them where a white man has never yet set his foot."

"He'll come out, all the same," answered Arthur; "but as long as he stays around, Sherwin's Pond is no place for hunting and fishing parties, unless they bring some one with them to watch the camp while they are rambling about in the woods. We must warn the hotel people as soon as we get back to town."

"You said there was something we could use to our advantage," suggested Joe.

"Yes. We can see any amount of sport here this fall with the grouse. We flushed a lot of them while we were gone," he added, turning to Tom, "but of course we didn't shoot at them."

"Why not?" inquired the latter.

"Why, because the close season isn't over yet, and the birds are protected by law."

Tom and his cousins had nothing to say, but they wondered if Arthur Hastings always