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" MULTUM IN PARVO" — A BACKWOODSMAN'S INTEREST 

 IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD — FELLOW CAMPERS — BIG 

 TUPPER'S LAKE — GALLANT LEAP OF A DEER — BUT- 

 TERMILK FALLS — "COLD SPRING" — TROUT-FISHING 

 RUINED BY THE STORM — A WEASEL IMPALED ON A 

 BUCK'S HORN — BOG RIVER. 



Loon Pond, July 8th, 1858. 



Dear H : 



The log-hut in which we stayed last night consisted 

 of two rooms, one of which answered for parlor, sitting- 

 room, dining-room, pantry, kitchen, and, last of all, bed- 

 room, for in two corners of it were beds with sheets 

 dropped over them, in one of which slept the man and 

 his wife, and in the other two females belonging to the 

 family ; the other room was a loft with - loose boards 

 thrown across the logs for a floor. This was filled up 

 with beds placed alongside of each other. Into these 

 we, with our guides and two others, making eight in all, 

 crept and slept as we best could. The owner of this 



