FAREWELL TO CAMP. EASTWARD HO! 181 



charming water and forest views, and even the chippery 

 cross-bills thai were as sociable and friendly as Adam's 

 companions of the brute creation, were all so many cords 

 to sever. The boy, however, severed them easily enough. 

 He was the happy one of the party as we waved adieu to 

 Slickney Camp" and swept away over the waters with 

 the si ron g. steady stroke of .John's oars. My eyes have 

 seen " Slickney Camp" no more; but my dreams by night 

 and by day. have man\, many limes re-lived the delight fill 

 lite we spent there; and I hope for one more summer rot 

 there with .John and with not one. but with three sturdy 

 boys. 



Stopping at .lack Shepperd's Camp a few minutes we 

 replenished our slock f pr->vi>ions with butter and Ber- 

 muda onions. 1 cannot sing the praises of this vegetable 

 too loudly as a good thing to have in cam]). It tills the 

 place of a do/.en other things in the nnnu of the wilder 

 ness. One, indeed, is entirely independent and may 

 defy famine on a lonely tramp, or driven ashore by storm a 

 do/.en miles from camp, if lie has one pocket full of crack 

 ers. and a half do/.en Bermuda onions stowed away in 

 other pocket-. 



When we reached the head of Fourth Lake, (near which 

 the attractive Trait Camp is situated. ) .John pushed up the 

 shallow and rapid inlet while Ned and 1 walked, only a 

 short distance, to Fifth Lake where we again took the Ijoat. 

 This latter lake is a small and unaltraelive sheet of water, 

 useful, mainly, as a link in the chain. From Fifth to Sixth 

 Lake we made our lirst carry. three-<|uarters of a mile. 



