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and nails and pegs Avere hung guns, rods, fish-baskets, 

 landhig-nets, powder-flasks, shot-pouches and rubber boots 

 and coats, — indeed, about everything one could think of as 

 ever going into the woods; while up stairs was the one large 

 sleeping apartment of the guides. 



On the other side of the "hotel " was a new fi-a me -dwell 

 ing, " for geiitlenu'ii accomjianied l)y ladies. " in accord- 

 ance with a law of civilization which always has the 

 approbation of the fortunate monopolists, Itut wliich inevi- 

 tably strikes the uncomfortable excluded as an invidious 

 distinction not consistent with the broad application of the 

 principle underlying female suffrage. 



The Editor and I, belonging for the time to the excluded, 

 were only able to saj" that the building looked like a com- 

 fortable sort of barracks, and we endeavored to persuade 

 ourselves that our own snug (juarters under the sharp- 

 IMtched roof of the log-house nnist be more comfortable and 

 cozy than anything foimd in the more modern and preten- 

 tions structure. 



A rambling and well V(>ntilated log-l)arn and stable in the 

 rear, a log pen for the hungry and restless deer-hounds, and 

 a wood-pile conunensurate in size with the length of the Avin- 

 tersand thedeptli of the snow in this region, — both of which 

 Fuller was accustomed to meet, endure and facedown, all 

 alone, with his personal pluck and presence, — comi)leted 

 the picture. 



As it happened, for a few days we four were the only guests 

 occupying the log house, while two or three families from 

 New York and Brookl3'n, including nurses and several 



