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a store, a post-office, and a blacksmith-shop, are the usual 

 germs of a future village. Here is a little sketch, which is 

 positive evidence that Walter was detained there when pass- 

 ing. Of course he could not be idle, and for want of a better 

 subject procured the blacksmith's boy, as he afterwards told 

 me for the sum of one dime ; the lad's face is a receipt for the 

 amount of happiness so large a sum of money caD create. 



Mr. Baker told me there was fine fly-fishing in the rapids 

 in front of his house in June, though Martin's is more con- 

 venient to the angler, and all those who take boats and guides 

 for the lakes and Raquette River, embark at his house. 



