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view; or, with tramps to little gems of lakes hid in the for- 

 est within easy distance. One day we cleared a path 

 through the underbrush to a bluff on the lake-shore, and on 

 a mossy grassy spot erected a tent under the trees, which 

 became a great resort for the ladies and the toddlinu \\ee 

 ones. There wa> famous rifle-shooting at sundry bottles 

 put upon a -take out in the lake. A morning surprise came 

 now and then, as a fat buck hung upon a limb near the 

 house, the result of the night's jack hunting. Fishing par- 

 ties and ' tourists were coming and going, bringinu 1 and 

 carrying out mail. A new sail boat had to be tested. All 

 together, there was a world of enjoyment of things hardly 

 worthy to tell, but very delightful to do. 



There had been, at one time, a notable accession to out- 

 numbers. The Sheriff of the count y came, convoy inu a party 

 of schoolma'ams who desired here to divert their minds 

 and restore their freshness during some portion of their 

 vacation. 1 surrendered my room to the schoolma'ams. 

 and temporarily took another on the ground floor 

 with the Sheriff as my room-mate. That personage was a 

 bachelor, but exceedingly thin, as if the cares of a large 

 f amity had worn him down, or his ancestors on the May 

 flower had contracted constitutional and ineradicable 

 dyspepsia on the long voyage to Plymouth Rock. He 

 looked all the thinner for being very tall and having high 

 cheek-bones, a long neck, and a preponderating Adam's 

 apple. 



On a Sunday morning, two or three days after the new 

 arrangement was inaugurated, when I arose, the spirit of 



