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could not be surpassed. Somebody suggested fishing, 

 and nobody objecting, four rods were jointed and rigged, 

 and four leaders with their delicate (lies were launched 



forth. 



Thenoriwe went, and on, with logs here and there disput 

 inii'our passage, until dinner lime, when we landed at "lion's 

 Hack, "near McColluin's clearing, where a little cool stream 

 comes into the main river. \Ve built a lire, roasted the trout 

 we had taken, opened our baskets and feasted i+i a rudimen 

 tarv \\av with the woodsman's keen appetile and /.esl. 

 Again we proceeded on our way upstream, the crooked- 

 ness and the siniL'x and logs increasing every moment. It 

 was all so Grange and primitively wild that the difficulties 

 of oni' pn>'-!T< <s were scarcely observed but to be enjoyed, 

 and we were uneon>eious that the day was declining and 

 that it \va- impossible for us to reach Osgood Pond before 

 night-fall. Our most excellent hypocrites, the hotel guides, 

 km-w thai before we started, but we had been left in bliss- 

 ful ignorance. 



A thunderstorm broke upon us. NVe drew our boats up 

 on the shore and sought the shelter of the trees At first 

 they protected us admirably, but after a time the leaks in 

 the leafy roofs became uncomfortably numerous. Starting 

 mudge." we made ourselves as jolly as possible, and 

 speedily the storm, after the fashion in the Adiroudacks, 



And now we discovered, upon consulting our guides and 

 our watches, the ignominious fact that Osgood Pond was 

 out of the <j u< -tion. When we came to know good and 



