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and nails and pegs were hung guns, rods, fish-baskets, 

 binding-nets, powder-flasks, shot-pouches and rubber boots 

 and coats, indeed, about everything one could think of as 

 ever going into the woods; while up stairs was the one large 

 slei-ping apartment of the guidc^. 



On the other side of the "hotel " was a new frame-dwell 

 ing, " for gentlemen accompanied by ladies. " in accord 

 anee with a law of civili/ation which always has the 

 approbation of the fortunate monopolists, but whieli inevi 

 laltly strikes the uncomfortable excluded as an invidious 

 distinction not consistent with the broad application of the 

 principle underlying female suffrage. 



The Editor and I, belonging for the time to theexcluded, 

 wen- only able to say that the building looked like a com- 

 fortable sort of barracks, ami we endeavored to persuade 

 ourselves that our own snug quarters under the sharp- 

 pitched roof of the log-house must lie more comfortable and 

 co/.y than anything found in the more modern and preten- 

 tious structure. 



A rambling and well ventilated log-barn and stable in the 

 rear, a log pen for the hungry and restless deer hounds, and 

 a wood pile commensurate in si/.e with the length of the win- 

 ters and the depth of the snow in this region, both of which 

 Fuller was accustomed to meet, endure and facedown, all 

 alone, with his personal pluck and presence, completed 

 the picture. 



A.- it happened, fora few days we four were the only guests 

 occupying the lo^ house, while two or three families from 

 New York and Brooklyn, including nurses and several 



