ip WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



Lake. The region in and around Kineo had been for 

 nearly a hundred years the happy hunting ground of 

 many tribes of Indians. The fishing there is good, 

 and the speckled trout caught there are immense in 

 size and of splendid flavor. Moose, deer, caribou and 

 smaller animals were to be found within two or three 

 days' journey from Kineo, and in summer and the 

 early fall the men could always obtain lucrative em- 

 ployment as guides for parties desiring to go up or 

 down the Penobscot, up the Dead River, the Moose 

 River or to some of the myriads of small lakes which 

 make this part of the United States a nation's recrea- 

 tion ground. The guides frequently waged friendly 

 contests in canoe racing, in shooting with the bow and 

 arrow, or in the use of the old " flint lock." The 

 leader in all this manly rivalry was a young brave of 

 twenty-two, tall and lithe, with long black hair, hand- 

 some face and piercing black eyes; he, indeed, was 

 first in everything, and his mentor and trainer during 

 his boyhood days was old Charley Nicholas, the Penob- 

 scot Indian, who idolized him and who would have 

 willingly given up his life for him. Frank Talmunt 

 was the hero's name. His father having been killed 

 in a fight with an Algonquin Indian when he was 

 very young and his mother forcibly abducted in a 

 tribal raid when he was ten years old, Nicholas was 

 both father and mother to the growing lad, and well 

 was he repaid for his care. Frank was obedient and 



