( 1 1 AFTER XI. 



On the whole. Fuller's furnished a variety of entertain- 

 ment, and was en joyable. But the most delightful of places 

 and the most charming of experiences become monotonous 

 after a time, and, a favorable opportunity offering, one day 

 I joined a party of ladies and gentlemen and departed from 

 Meaoham Lake to Paul Smith's. Our flotilla of boats went 

 down the lake to the rapids, we walked to the bridge, and 

 then- were met by teams sent up from Smith's. 



The ride through the woods was rather rough, but reason- 

 ably comfortable for a wood's road, until we reached 

 " Burnt Ground. " where the road became excellent. Here 

 was a larue. tree less, stump-less section of several hundred 

 acres. Mipposrd to have been swept by tire at some period 

 long past. A feeble settlement of a do/en or fifteen fam 

 ilics maintains the struggle for existence in the centre of 

 this tract, the men cultivating a few acres of the sandy soil, 

 hunting, trapping and fishing, and, as occasion offers, act- 

 ing as guides for sportsmen among the little lakes that lie 

 in clusters on every side in the forest. The notable man 

 o| this out of the world hamlet is A. ( '. Mc( 'ollum. a kindly 

 old gentleman who came hither from the great world out- 

 side, after a succession of domestic bereavements which 

 almost broke his In-art, but left him even more kindly and 

 gentle than before. Little bare-footed children were run- 



