There must be plenty of fish in the lake, both small and great." "But how are we to get them out of it ?" rejoined Catharine.

"I doubt the fish will swim at their ease there, while we go hungry." "Do not interrupt me, ma chere.

Then, we see the track of deer, and the holes of the wood-chuck; we hear the cry of squirrels and chipmunks, and there are plenty of partridges, and ducks, and quails, and snipes; of course, we have to contrive some way to kill them.

Fruits there are in abundance, and plenty of nuts of different kinds.

At present we have plenty of fine strawberries, and huckleberries will be ripe soon in profusion, and bilberries too, and you know how pleasant they are; as for raspberries, I see none; but by-and-by there will be May-apples--I see great quantities of them in the low grounds, grapes, high-bush-cranberries, haws as large as cherries, and sweet too; squaw-berries, wild plums, choke-cherries, and bird-cherries.