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camp out for weeks. Many of these are people who live in 

 luxury at home, who have become weary of Newport, Sara- 

 toga, and Nahant, and come out " to rough it." Some " satisfy 

 the sentiment" in a single trip, others repeat the excursion 

 year after year, until the men become passable woodsmen, and 

 the women right good squaws. 



NOB. Fishing and philandering, I think, are very opposite 

 amusements. I don't like to mix them; and meeting any num- 

 ber of town folks amongst such places and scenes as I have 

 heard Walter describe, would seem to me like an untimed 

 intrusion. 



NES. I think it rather adds to the charm when one can 

 take his wife and children on such an excursion ; that is, if he 



