GRAND LAKE. 117 



There is and in our day and generation there 

 will be at least good fishing and hunting far 

 away from the haunts of men ; but little can be 

 found, even at this day, near enough to the man of 

 business, combining every thing in its surroundings 

 and its sport to make glad the heart of the true 

 angler. 



I think, had I not been lured from the salmon 

 trout of the Rangeleys, by stories of the leaps of 

 the land-locked salmon of Grand Lake Stream, the 

 steamboat's purring now heard breaking the stillness 

 of those charming waters would have finished me. 

 And yet I have been to Grand Lake for the past 

 four years, and actually have swallowed two steam- 

 boats and on horror's head horrors accumulate 

 one tannery every year. 



I reason like this : had the steamboats followed 

 me, as much as the fishing delights and charms, I 

 should probably have " folded my tent," as many a 

 disheartened sportsman has done before me, " and 

 quietly stole away ; " but, expecting them and their 

 accompaniments, I tolerate them, as many others 

 are willing and obliged to, for fishing that cannot-^ 

 I say it with due deliberation be excelled in the 

 United States. 



I do not believe there is a true sportsman but 

 that enjoys the companionship of nature nearly, if 



