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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 water and rocky shoals, the pleasures and 

 disappointments that beset the stranger in this beautiful 

 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 ; sometimes 

 the fishing at Errol* is so good as to well deserve 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 no 



* A village a few miles distant from Upton. 



