Among the Thousand Islands. 



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CAMPING OUT\ 



long-legged spiders or centipedes career across the viands or drop 

 into one's cup of lukewarm coffee ; but dinners as luxurious in their 

 bill of fare as any of the hotels can afford, combined with all the 

 unfettered gayety incident to such an al fresco meal. A day's fish- 

 ing is nominally the backbone of the expedition, around which the 

 day's pleasure is actually built. We will suppose that the party of 

 a dozen ladies and gentlemen is formed, and the day planned for the 

 expedition arrived, — a clear, sunny one, with not a ripple stirring the 

 glassy surface of the stream. Six boats are hired, a gentleman and 

 lady going in each, under the superintendence of a fisherman, which 

 fisherman, if he should happen to be George Campbell, one of the 

 Patterson Brothers, McCue, or some such competent hand, may 

 afford his lucky party a day's sport that of itself would fully satisfy the 

 expectations of most people. Perhaps, if the fishing ground be distant, 

 a steam yacht is engaged, the boats, stretching in a long line, are 

 taken in tow, and off the jolly party starts, with flags flying merrily. 



