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and equine travel added to wagon and rail-road ride and 

 superlatively early rising at Utic.1 after a very late retiring 

 and previous journeying. 



But we were not too hungry nor too weary to observe 

 what a quiet, charming out-look there was. Down the 

 grass plot, easterly a few rods, gleamed the Moose River 

 waters, deep and sluggish, retarded in their flow by the dam 

 at our left. The forest in this direction had hardly been 

 broken. In the distance the mountains lifted their heads 

 in the light of the descending sun. Within us was the feel 

 ing that the inevitably hard and tiresome "going in" had 

 been accomplished, and that now and here really began the 

 unalloyed delights Ned and I had talked over so often both 

 with boyish enthusiasm -at the winter fireside, and more 

 frequently out under the trees on the lawn where the boys 

 had pitched the tent, when the summer heats had begun to 

 glow and the pavements were hot, and the air of office and 

 school room was stilling. 



At supper two brown, blue shirted young men sat at tin- 

 table on my left. 1 thought they were guides, who by the 

 <H'itinx !<></' had been, according to the fashion of the woods. 

 invited to* the "first table." Some common enough Latin 

 phrase uttered in joke between them, however, attracted 

 my attention, and I speedily learned that my two table 

 neighbors were students from Hamilton College. That be- 

 in- my own Alma Mater, I was quickly on good terms 

 with them, and they related to me the history of their ad 

 ventures thus far. Said one of them : 



\\ e resolved, la-t winter, to do the woods this summer. 



