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times a week, and never on the arrival of the boat, and 
will occupy ten hours of your time at a charge of three 
dollars and a half ; or you may take an extra for sixteen 
dollars. If you hire one of Kelley, the stage proprietor, 
make a tight bargain, for he is Biblical and takes in 
strangers. In case you should be too late to reach 
Bathurst the same day, or have leisure on your hands, 
stop at the Half-way House on the Tabasintac, which 
has the last syllable accentuated, and fish that night 
and the next morning for sea trout. They are taken 
from a horse-boat in abundance and of great size. 
In Bathurst there is a good hotel called the Welling- 
ton, kept by Mr. Baldwin, with the efficient aid of Mary ; 
and also a more private establishment, by Bela Packard, 
which is the customary resort of Americans. There is a 
telegraph from St. John to Bathurst, and Baldwin will 
meet at Chatham any guests that send him word, and 
bring them to Bathurst for fourteen dollars. In the 
latter place, Ferguson, Rankin & Co. will furnish all 
the heavy outfit, such as pork, biscuit, butter, tea, sugar, 
tobacco, and will have them ready put up if written to 
beforehand. As it is customary on the I^ipisiquit to 
loan the guides blankets, the same firm keep them on 
hand, and will lend them to those that buy stores of 
them. Once or twice a month the Arabian leaves She- 
diac and stops within a couple of miles of Bathurst, and 
if you can manage to suit your time to hers, you can go 
direct and be ticketed through for ten dollars. Her 
days may be ascertained at the office of the Boston boats, 
but it is well to telegraph to Bathurst to have a canoe to 
meet you, as otherwise you may have difficulty in reach- 
