CHAPTER YIII 

 A FAMOUS PERIBONCA PORTAGE 



"I mean, the fashion yes, the faahion is the fashion." 



MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. 



GOBER LAKE, New Brunswick, is called after a mur- 

 derer by that name, but the explanation is made that 

 the murder was not committed until fifteen years after 

 it was so christened. Then the aforesaid Gober shot a 

 man and killed him, for which crime he was imprisoned 

 for one month, this light sentence being on account of 

 some extenuating circumstances. 



Gober, perhaps thirty years ago, came into the wilds 

 upon hunting bent, and under the guiding hand of 

 Henry Braithwaite, he finally reached the lake now 

 named after him, and, casually asking Henry how far 

 he was then from his home in southern New Bruns- 

 wick, he was so startled and frightened when told that 

 he was over one hundred miles into the wilderness that 

 he there and then insisted upon turning back to civili- 

 zation, and hunting had no further lure for him. 



We left Moccasin Lake very early in the morning, 

 en route for Gober Lake. The road led over a good 

 pathway through the woods to Birch Lake. On the 

 way fresh tracks of two men, one wearing rubber boots 

 and the other moccasins, were found in the path lead- 



