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beset the stranger in this beautiful but inhospitable region 

 I will keep your feet free from pitfalls, and your purse 

 safe from too-frequent incursions. Having eaten your 

 evening meal, and retired to your room, send for your host, 

 and learn from him all particulars necessary to guide your 

 future steps. Wherever you go you will catch fish ; some- 

 times the fishing at Errol * is so good as to well deserve a 

 visit ere you go np to the dam where the Androscogan 

 River leaves Lower Richardson Lake. Supposing the 

 season to be the end of ^lay the time we should advise to 

 be selected for your visit delightful brook-fishing may be 

 obtained beneath the dam in the Little Cambridge river, 

 which flows within fifty yards of the .-I any and 



many a morning and evenir. . taken here thre 



four dozen beauties, some of them over a pound, and all 

 game to the last. I know no river better suited for the 

 increase of trout, and doubtless at the present time it would 

 swarm with thousands all a! that a selfish 



being named Abott projected and erected a dam a 

 twenty feet high, to collect water to drive a mill ; and worse, 

 had the inhumanity not even to leave a fish-way; 

 sequent! y, Izaak Walton's disciples have to walk many a 

 wearisome mile np this brook b .. jimd 



abur. then they are so poo that 



are almost unfit for the table. Now, the difference 

 between those beneath the dam and thos^j above, is doubt- 

 less caused by the unfortunate d the upper water 

 being prevented from makirj nnual visits to Lake 



* A village a few miles distant from Up 



