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and visiting adjacent waters if we should find it agreeable 

 to do so. 



To the 'Squire, as being " to the manor born" and famil- 

 iar with men and measures in tlie region we were about to 

 peacefuly invade, were committed the important details of 

 employing guides, fixing upon the location of our camp — 

 with positive instructions to see to it that an abundant and 

 cold spring bubbled near it — and arranging that transpor- 

 tation should be furnished for ourselves and our rather 

 formidable bags and baggage. As a further precaution 

 against a waste of time and comfort, the Junior, under 

 orders from the Captain, preceded the rest of the party, 

 two or three days, with all the heavy baggage, to prepare a 

 reception in camp for men who expected to be very tired 

 and hungry at the end of a long day of heavy traveling — 

 for we firmly resolved to reach our destination the night of 

 the very day we left home. 



We duly assembled at the station and lunched, and the 

 Captain lighted a cigar. At Watertown we breakfasted, 

 and the Commissary smoked a cigar. The Scribe's^ recol- 

 lection fails as to the number of raih-oad changes we made, 

 at each of which there was a anxious gathering up and 

 transfer of rods, rifles and bags and bundles of the smaller 

 sort ; but it is a historical fact that none of us were lost or 

 left, and that, on counting the respective noses of the party 

 at UeKalb Junction, there wasn't a vacancy. By stage to 

 llermon, six miles, was a hot and dusty ride through an 

 unattractive country. The 'Squire was hunted up and 

 found, as l)usy as a C-ountry Justice could be, at his little 

 oflEice. 



