( 'IT AFTER XVII. 



The following correspondence explains itself: 



(1- ) 

 DBAS Mi:. CKAVKS: 



I \v;iiit a u-iiide for two. Mr. Wallaee (of the Guide 

 Book) tells me you are a genuine sportsman yourself, and 

 a irood friend of sportsmen. ---th:il I may write lo you 

 freely for information, and thai you will as freely sjivr. 



I am iroiiii: across the wilderness by way of the Fulton 

 Chain, Uaqnette Lake, and so on, time, two or three 

 weeks, riii'ht after .Inly Mh. if my clients will let me. -I 

 am to take with me my son, a lad of eleven years we two, 

 no more. 1 shall come with all needed supplies and some 

 pet notions of mine l>\ uay of tent and camping-kit. My 

 hoy is a stronir, healthy, plucky little fellow, and 1 shall 

 have no fears that he will ^ive out where I don't. 



My uuide must he a careful, disci-eel, judicious man, and 

 a u-ood woodsman, not profane, not foul -mouthed, nottoo 

 talkative, temperate. 



Have you in mind such a man as 1 want. ? 



Yours Truly. 



(3.) 



I'lHinerillc, A. )'., June, AS'77. 

 1 )KAI: Su: : 



I ha\e just the man you want .John L Urinckerhoot', 

 a middle-aged man of character ill this town the best 



