It is pleasant to be able to fish and hunt, and trap the game.

Yes, if they were all here, we would build us a nice log-house, and clear up these bushes on the flat near the lake.

This 'Elfin Knowe,' as you call it, Kate, would be a nice spot to build upon.

See these glorious old oaks; not one should be cut down, and we would have a boat and a canoe, and voyage across to yonder islands.

Would it not be charming, ma belle ?" and Catharine, smiling at the picture drawn so eloquently, would enter into the spirit of the project, and say,-- "Ah! Louis, that would be pleasant." "If we had but my father's rifle now," said Hector, "and old Wolfe." "Yes, and Fanchette, dear little Fanchette, that trees the partridges and black squirrels," said Louis.
"I saw a doe and a half-grown fawn beside her this very morning, at break of day," said Hector.