112 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



The man was very ostentatious in his manners and 

 said that he had plenty of money to pay for his accom- 

 modation, and that he wanted the hotel boss to know 

 that he was the Republican nominee for governor of the 

 great state of Pennsylvania. That didn't impress the re- 

 doubtable " Anse " very much, but he finally said that 

 the man and his guide might lie down on the floor, that 

 being the best he could do for them. 



" The Republican nominee for governor of the great 

 state of Pennsylvania " was so much offended at this 

 offer that he stalked out of the house into the howling 

 storm, and made his man pitch a tent and build a fire 

 on the shore of the lake, while he stood in the down- 

 pouring rain, fretting and fuming over the blow his 

 dignity had received. 



We arrived in time to get some supplies from " Anse " 

 in readiness to start very early in the morning. We re- 

 tired at 8 p. M., and at 4 : 30 the next day we were up 

 and doing, had breakfast at 5 : 30, and left to cross 

 Chesuncook Lake at 6 A. M. Our route lay along the 

 northern shore of the lake until a large cove was en^ 

 tered. We paddled through this cove, and then entered 

 a pond, where 4,000,000 feet of logs, which had been 

 cut on the land around " Our Lake " the previous winter, 

 were stored, awaiting the time when their owner the 

 Great Northern Paper and Pulp Company would or- 

 der them floated down to the huge paper mill at Milla- 

 nocket Lake. 



