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and rugged strength to take a daily tramp whether 

 the weather was what it ought to be or whether it 

 wasn't. 



It was said that at least fifteen hundred sportsmen 

 were then in the Maine woods. If so, they required 

 fully two thousand guides, making an army of say 

 three thousand five hundred people, many of them 

 with only a week or ten days' time at their disposal, 

 and some of them accompanied by ladies. While 

 the weather-look was bad for us, it was worse for " the 

 other fellers," whose short supply of time wouldn't 

 allow them to wait for the glad sunshine to come. 



So, after comparing situations, we concluded we 

 had much the better, and good-humoredly pocketing 

 complaint we waited patiently till the sun thought fit 

 to give us the light of his countenance. 



