240 GRANBERRT LAKE. — THE OSWECIATCHIE. 



willing to abandon the contest at Brandy Brook. Three of 

 the live Avent down the river to Cook's Spring-Hole and 

 several mikss further, realizing their fondest hopes. The 

 Mayor and 1 spent the tirst day at Basin Brook, a little cold 

 stream putting into the river from the southerly shore, 

 about half a mile below the dam. It is navigable for 

 small boats only about a quarter of a mile, after ^ which it 

 creeps around among the overhanging aldei's in such a be- 

 wildering and contracted way, that in the cool shades and 

 among the holes and springs the trout are entirely safe 

 from even the enterprising small boy and his alder-rod and 

 tow-string. AVe fished from our l)oat iu a, most comfort- 

 able fashion, a part of the day, aiul took out one hundred 

 and five trout, most of them of fair size aiitl giving us 

 excellent sport. 



We all spent the night at the house of M. G. Dodds, wiio 

 is keeper of the dam. He and his pleasant family live a 

 very retired but most sensible life on the river bank near 

 the place of his labors— the rapid river l)elow the bluff 

 making delightful music to go to sleep by. At supper, 

 some very vile slanders were uttered by the Senator and 

 others as to the Scribe's appetite, which he endeavored to 

 render innocuous by intimating that he was both Scribe 

 and Treasurer, and was therefore entitled to double rations. 

 And he bears testimony — and will not be deterred from it 

 by any insinuations, past or future, — that the trout cooked 

 by Mrs. Dodds, and coming smoking-hot upon the table by 

 the platter-full, at stated intervals of about five minutes 

 each, for a whole hour, were the best that he has ever 



