V. 



A TROUT-STREAM. PARTRIDGES ---THE FlSHER. NAMING A 



A THUNDER-STORM IN THE FOREST. MEACHAM'S LAKE 



IN the morning we started south, towards the 

 Saranac Lakes. We left our shantee on the shore, 

 and our catamaran in the water, for any who should 

 come after us. Let no man who loves dry feet, em- 

 bark on such a water craft. While the sportsman, so 

 far as we are concerned, is welcome to it wherever he 

 may find it, yet we tell him frankly, that unless he 

 "builds some addition to it, he will find that, while it 

 carries him safely, it will introduce much moisture to 

 nis boots. 



We had a long journey before us this day, as our 

 design was to reach Meacham's Lake, some sixteen 

 miles in the wilderness. Travelling west on a town- 

 ship line of marked trees for about three miles, we 



struck a blind kind of path, running south along an- 



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