BLACK ErVTER RAILROAD. — FENTON's. 131 



And by conuectiug rail-roads oue oiay, indeed, SAveep 

 northward, eastward and southward again, pretty much 

 around the entire xVdirouchielvs ; and almost every station is 

 ■' the best place, " if we have faith in the local opinion, at 

 which to enter the wilderness. 



I trust, then, that the ties of that road may never decay, 

 and its rails never Avear out, and that it may always pay 

 good dividends, for it is, par e.vcdknce, the highway to the 

 gates of the Sportsman's Paradise. 



The bags and bundles were, at length, ;tll on board our 

 train, our rods and guns carefully set up in the cor- 

 ners we appropriated Avithout protest, — for again Avas the 

 fishing rod a passport, — and we Avere hurried away, after a 

 moderate fashion, nortliAvard. At Martiusburgh, Lewis 

 met us and transported us to his hotel at Beach's Bridge. 

 We were actually again on the Avay to the woods, and it 

 Avas with ill-concealed impatience that Ave spent the hour 

 of daylight that remained. A proposition to go up a little 

 stream, in the evening, to catch suckers in a net, Avas half- 

 complacently entertained, butoui" finer sportsman's instincts 

 prevailed, and Ave Avent to bed instead. 



With the early morning Ave Avere off for Fenton's — ''No. 

 4,". — sixteen miles distant. Five miles from Fenton's Ave 

 struck solid forest, our fair road disappeared, and there 

 Avas tramping to l)e done. The guns were brought into 

 requisition, and a pigeon steAv for dinner fell to our aim. 

 We arrived at Fenton's a little before noon. 



' ' No. 4 " is simply the number of the township ; but that 

 name abides although "men may come and men may go," 



