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belief, and strongly adhere to a sinister interpretation 

 of the words, " I was a stranger and ye took me in." 

 But once marshalled under the banner of Mr. Frost, 

 you will be safe from their philanthropic designs ; 

 and further, you will be well fed and housed. If you 

 be an epicure, fail not to ask for a bonne bouche 

 which we relished among these pine-clad hills viz., 

 trout stewed in cream. The white-bait of the Londoner, 

 the canvas-back duck of Delmonico's, and the green 

 turtle-steak of the City Fathers, are all thrown in the 

 shade by this delicious dish. You have but to scent it 

 in future to make your mouth water, and visions of 

 epicurean feasts float before your eyes. Now, if you 

 will only place yourself in my hands and well I know 

 the smooth waters and rocky shoals, the pleasures and 

 disappointments that beset the stranger in this beau- 

 tiful but inhospitable region I will keep your feet free 

 from pitfalls, and your purse safe from too-frequent 

 incursions. Having eaten your evening meal, and 

 retired to your room, send for your host, and learn 

 from him all particulars necessary to guide your future 

 steps. Wherever you go you will catch fish ; some- 

 times the fishing at Errol* is so good as to well de- 

 serve a visit ere you go up to the dam where the 

 Androscogan River leaves Lower Richardson Lake. 

 Supposing the season to be the end of May the time 

 we should advise to be selected for your visit delightful 

 brook-fishing may be obtained beneath the dam in the 

 Little Cambridge River, which flows within fifty yards 

 of the hotel. Many and many a morning and evening 

 I have taken here three or four dozen beauties, some of 

 them over a pound, and all game to the last. I know 

 * A village a few miles distant from Upton. 



