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didn't get an overstock of that. Well, be s'ayed 

 around Plattsburgh two or three days, and happenin' 

 to hear me, one da3 r , when I was down there, teliin' 

 about the Shatagee Lakes, he hired me to go with him 

 for a week. We went over to the Shazee first, and 

 and lived there for a week, on venison and trout, and 

 such fixens as we took along. At the end of that 

 time, he began to feel like a new man, and he sent me 

 back, for another packload of biscuit and pork. We 

 went over to Bradley's Lake, and so down to the 

 Shatagee. We visited Eagged Lake, and Ingen Lake, 

 and cruised about for a month. He growed better 

 and smarter, every day. His strength kept a comin', 

 and his lean cheeks filled up, and his eyes lost their 

 sickly look, and he came out a new man. He'd 

 gained mor'n thirty pounds of flesh. He could di- 

 gest a brick-bat, and what he eat warn't never heard 

 of again. He paid me as a guide and then doubled 

 my fee as a doctor. He said my medicine was the 

 cheapest, and best he ever took. 'Twas the pure air 

 of the mountains, and stirrin' about, and sweaten', 

 and sleeping on hemlock boughs, and goin' to bed 

 airly, and gettin' up airly, and washin' and swimmin' 

 in the cool water night and mornin,' and huntin' and 



