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Holmes formerly kept a house for the entertainment of 

 sportsmen at the upper end of the lake, near the stream of 

 water which connects Lake Pleasant with Eound Lake. I 

 always preferred stopping at Satterlee's, a house of less preten- 

 sion, at the lower end of Lake Pleasant, near the outlet, which 

 was four miles nearer Jessup Biver and Louie Lake. 



The first week in June is considered the most favorable 

 time for visiting Hamilton County ; then there is good troll- 

 ing in the lakes ; fly-fishing is at its height a week or so 

 later. There were good boats for trolling the lakes, and 

 expert oarsmen who also acted as guides for the guests of 

 both houses — tough, sinewy fellows who could carry a pack 

 of forty or fifty pounds, and the inseparable and indispensable 

 axe on their backs all day long, and a gun also, if you had a 

 fancy for the steak of a yearling buck. 



A few days on Lake Pleasant and Eound Lake generally 

 gave us trolling enough ; hitching on to a big " laker" and 

 smoking a whole segar, while you waited on him in his runs 

 and sulks, ceased to be sport after performing several feats of 

 the kind, and we would long for more active service amongst 

 the speckled, notwithstanding the certainty of encountering 

 the mosquitoes and black flies in camping out. Our return, 

 though, to a good straw bed at Satterlee's, and a day's trolling 

 on the lake, was what my friend, the little Doctor, called a 

 "letup." 



Norman. But about the fly-fishing and camping out ? 



Nes. Every man ought to enjoy the sentiment of camping 

 out, if only for once or twice in his lifetime. You have your 

 provisions packed and the guide straps it on his back; 

 perhaps the landlord gives a lift with his wagon as far as the 

 road is practicable, if there is one in the direction of your 

 place of destination. When you get to your camping-place 

 the guide makes a shanty of spruce-bark, which, with a fire in 



