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honest, kind, capable, and accommodating guide. Last 

 year he went out with a party from Boston and Cam- 

 bridge, and his democratic notions received a shock 

 from which he will never recover. His harmless rattle 

 was considered disrespectful, and Sam, who had never 

 before seen anybody too good for him, was taken wholly 

 aback by the distance at which he was kept. He was 

 treated simply as a paid servant at home. This was a 

 new revelation to him. In his long life in the woods he 

 had seen nothing like it before. A rollicking, free-and- 

 easy set he had always been with hitherto, and so much 

 stateliness and dignity in camp-life quite bewildered 

 him. He said, however, that he had his revenge on one 

 of them. On a long and uneven carrying-place, over 

 which he was floundering with his boat on his head, the 

 gentleman began to grumble at the difficulties of the 

 way, and repeatedly asked Sam if there was no way 

 for him to get across except by walking. " Yes," re- 

 plied the latter, at last, " ketch a sucker, and put him 

 between your legs and scull over." Sam said that ever 

 after the man regarded him as some strange animal, 

 whose company should be carefully avoided. 



His dislike of Bostonians and Cambridge men, as he 

 calls them, has become chronic, and he will run on for 



