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view; or, with tramps to little gems of lakes hid in the for- 

 est within eas}' distance. One day we cleared a path 

 through the nnderbrnsh to a bluff on the lake-shore, and on 

 a mossy -grassy spot erected a tent under the trees, which 

 became a great resort for the ladies and the toddling wee 

 ones. There was famous rifle-shooting at sundry bottles 

 put upon a stake out in the lake. A morning surprise came 

 now and then, as a fat buck hung upon a limb near the 

 house, the result of the night's jack-hunting. Fishing par- 

 ties and tourists were coming and going, l)ringing and 

 carrying out mail. A new sail-boat had to be tested. All 

 together, there was a world of eujoyment of things hardly 

 worthy to tell, but very delightful to do. 



There liad been, at one time, a notal)le accession to our 

 numbers. The Sherilf of the count}' came, con voy ing a party 

 of schoolma'ams who desired here to divert their minds 

 and restore their freshness during some portion of their 

 vacation. I surrendered my room to the schoolma'ams, 

 and temporaril}' took another on the ground floor 

 with the Sheriff as my room-mate. That personage was a 

 bachelor, l)ut exceedingly thin, as if the cares of a large 

 family had worn him down, or his ancestors on the May- 

 flower had contracted constitutional and ineradicable 

 dyspepsia on the long voyage to Plymouth Rock. He 

 looked all the thinner for being very tall and having high 

 cheek-bones, a long neck, and a preponderating Adam's 

 apple. 



On a Sunday morning, two oi- three days after the new 

 arrangement was inaugurated, when I arose, — the spirit of 



