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fully prepared to resume our several avocations, and 

 fjo-ht again the battles of life with renewed courage and 

 hope. 



P.S. — We were absent from Barrie twent}vfive days 

 in all, and the whole trip cost us only one hundred and 

 thirty-five dollars, or forty-five dollars each. Our ice 

 was kept almost intact by being wrapped in blankets 

 and covered with spruce boughs. Mr. Boon, before 

 referred to, has built and is this winter (1883) filling a 

 large ice-house on the small island for his own use and 

 that of any visitors who may fish in the neighborhood 

 next summer. Mr. Boon took five hundred half barrels 

 of choice fish on these grounds last season ; with nets, 

 of course. 



