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old lumber wagon, consuming some twelve hours' time. 

 Now there is a good road and the conveyance is all that 

 could be desired.) The next day, if the weather and 

 the water both are fit, he takes to his canoe and gets 

 over as much of another thirty-five miles as his muscle 

 can master. If the water be not fit, he must walk 

 and tote his canoe and stuff. This must needs be 

 hard work at least for the guide and yet it is only 

 the beginning of a month's or six weeks' toil. But he 

 shouldn't be discouraged and won't be if his veins 

 run with the blood of a sportsman. The toil may fag 

 his physical framework a little, yet he may find in it 

 an exhilarating oil for his metaphysical machinery. 



And now to return to the city of St. John. It is 

 scrupulously clean indeed, it couldn't be otherwise, 

 being situated upon high hills and constantly wind- 

 swept either from the ocean or the spruce forest of 

 the valley of the St. John. While the Union Jack 

 that floats from many buildings and from the ship- 

 ping in the harbor speaks plainly of the city's nation- 

 ality, yet a great portion of those who travel its 

 streets are subjects of Uncle Sam. St. John's busi- 

 ness men all have a high regard for the depth of 

 Sam's pocket and look upon it as unfathomable. His 

 dollars, whether silver or paper, are deemed quite as 

 good as their own, and nothing is said about 

 exchange. 



According to the custom's rule we had to pay a 



