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ladies. I was delighted that the triumph belonged to this 

 splendid specimen of the robust gentleman whom I had 

 admired for his manl}^ beauty and pure, good face ; and I 

 put his picture by .the side of that of the young-old 

 Doctor, in my memories of Paid Smith's and St. Regis. 



There is a charming ramble, out among the trees, east of 

 the house, and thence all over the wooded, rock}- penin- 

 sula jutting into the lake. One ma}^ sit and lounge on the 

 rocks at the water's edge and look out upon the lake and 

 see how prettily the l)reezes play with the wavelets; or 

 gaze beyond, and watch the summit of St. Regis Moun- 

 tain, noting what a world of blue there is in the atmos- 

 phere when it rests upon a mountain's brow; or let the eye 

 Avander far and near upon the forest, and dream and 

 dream again of the procession of the centuries that have 

 come and gone, while the forest, ever changing, yet 

 remains ever the same. There are a hundred things one 

 may do, at such a resort as Paul Smith's, besides fishing, 

 that will be both delightful to the tir^d mind and delicious 

 to all the senses. I confess that, while there, I enjoyed 

 these un-sportsmanlike things to the utmost. 



