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RAQUETTE RIVER — PLUMB GUT ROUTE — A BACKWOODS- 

 MAN'S TRICK — DINNER IN THE WOODS — BACKWOODS' 

 HOSPITALITY — KEEPING OPEN HOUSE — A GOOD RIFLE 

 SHOT — SHOT AT A DEER. 



Eaquette Eiver, July. 

 Dear H : 



The Eaquette Eiver is tortuous like Stony Creek, 

 but its sweeps are so wide and majestic that you do 

 not observe it. Above where we struck it there is a 

 bend of two miles from point to point, while across 

 the neck of land between them it is only 20 rods. 

 The knowledge of the spot, which is known only to 

 few, enabled Steve Martin, as he is called, and who 

 lives at the carrying-place on the Ampersand Pond, 

 to serve a couple of selfish fishermen a very nice trick. 

 It is several miles from the -mouth of Stony Creek up 

 to Eaquette Falls, at the foot of which, early in the 



