CHAPTER XXVIII. 



HEADED DOWN STREAM RETURN TO TUPPER's LAKE THE CAMP 

 ON THE ISLAND. 



WE started down stream again at six o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, intending, if possible, to reach Tupper's Lake before en- 

 camping for the night. It would make for us a busy day to 

 accomplish so much ; but going down stream and down hill 

 are very different things from going up, as any gentleman 

 may satisfy himself by rowing against a current of two miles 

 the hour, or toiling up an ascent of three or four hundred 

 feet to the mile, and then retracing his steps. We accom- 

 plished more than half the distance, and that over the worst 

 of the journey, by twelve o'clock, and we halted for dinner 

 and a siesta. If there is one thing in life which can lay any 

 claim to being considered a positive luxury, it is a nap 

 on a mossy bank, in the deep shadows of the forest trees, 

 after a hearty meal, of a warm summer day. There should 

 be, in order to its full appreciation, a mixture of weariness 

 with a due proportion of laziness. Too much of either de- 



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