216 CRANBERRY LAKE. THE OSWEGATCHIE. 



and visiting adjacent waters if we should find it agreeable 

 to do so. 



To the 'Squire, as being " to the manor born" and famil* 

 iar with men and measures in the region we were about to 

 peacefuly invade, were committed the important details of 

 employing guides, fixing upon the location of our camp 

 with positive instructions to see to it that an abundant and 

 cold spring bubbled near it and arranging that transpor- 

 tation should be furnished for ourselves and our rather 

 formidable bags and baggage. As a further precaution 

 against a waste of time and comfort, the .Junior, under 

 orders from the Captain, preceded the rest of the party, 

 two or three days, with all the heavy baggage, to prepare a 

 reception in camp for men who expected to be very tired 

 and hungry at the end of a Ion i: day of heavy traveling 

 for we firmly resolved to reach our destination the night of 

 the very day we left home. 



We duly assembled at the station and lunched, and the 

 Captain lighted a cigar. At NYatertown \\ e breakfasted, 

 and the Commissary smoked a cigar. The Scribe's recol- 

 lection fails as to the number of railroad changes we made, 

 at each of which there was a anxious gathering up and 

 transfer of rods, ritles and bags and bundles of the smaller 

 sort ; but it is a-historical fact that none of us \vere lost or 

 left, and that, on counting the respective noses of the party 

 at DeKalb Junction, there wasn't a vacancy. ly stage to 

 Hermon, six miles, was a hot and dusty ride through an 

 unattractive country. The 'Squire was hunted up and 

 found, as busy as a Country Justice could be, at his little 

 office. 



