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five acres adjoining Breezy Point, and have built a cot- 

 tage, which makes us begin to wonder if Spec will some- 

 time be a fashionable watering place. May the day be 

 far distant ! 



We must go on, and yet not one word have we told you 

 of the times when we stayed two or three days, and how 

 we spent all our evenings on the water, just dipping 

 lightly the oars, while we watched the sunset clouds, and 

 then were on the alert for the first glimpse of Venus, 

 followed by Mars and Jupiter, and all the rest of the 

 heavenly host, not to mention seeing the moon rise three 

 times in fifteen minutes, one night, by changing our posi- 

 tion on the water, after waiting four hours for it; or 

 glorious to tell of, rising early and going out for a row 

 before breakfast. Mrs. Shayback will testify to all we 

 tell you of the joys of camp life, and how even work is 

 play, for she and her friends built a log cabin in their 

 Memphremagog camp last summer and were jubilant 

 over it. 



As I live it all over telling you about it, I marvel myself 

 that we think a phaeton trip is better than camping; but 

 we do, and without a pang we turned from it all, and 

 started off in the rain Sept. 13th. We will not trust Jerry 

 to tell you anything of this outing, for his enthusiasm is 

 not sufficient to do it justice. It had rained constantly 

 for five days, and we waited two hours for what we 

 thought might be the "clearing up" shower, but we were 

 only very glad we did not spoil our day's drive, for it con- 

 tinued to rain for five days longer. 



You may remember, for we have often spoken of it, 

 that we do not usually plan our journeys beforehand ; but 



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