With a Tenderfoot 169 



blem planted on the ruins of the old fort in 

 front of Old Glory. Then he reflected that 

 after all it was only a fire show, and that if it 

 came to business, the result would be entirely 

 different. 



Leaving Toronto next morning over the 

 Grand Trunk, the nimrod arrived at Muskoka 

 Wharf about 2 p.m., and took the boat up the 

 lake for Port Carling, for the purpose of pick- 

 ing up a companion, who will be known here- 

 after as the Tenderfoot. 



The night was spent at Port Carling and 

 next morning we left for Muskoka Wharf, 

 going thence by the Grand Trunk to Graven- 

 hurst and North Bay, where we took the 

 Canadian Pacific for Mattawa, arriving there 

 at 11 P.M. and stopping over night at the 

 hotel. 



The next day we took the train for Kip- 

 pewa, the terminus of a branch railroad 

 where passenger trains run but once in three 

 days each way. At Kippewa we put up at 

 the Kippewa House, a very rude affair chiefly 

 patronized by lumbermen and hunters in the 

 season, there being but two other houses in 



