CUPID IN THE WILDERNESS. 



This love will undo us all. O, Cupid '. Cupid ' Cupid ! 



— Ti otitis and Cressida. 



HrMAX nature is the same the world over, and Cui>id. 

 sly dog that he is, appears to know that the wild 

 woods and lakes and rivers of Maine are no excep- 

 tion tlTthe rule. Ah , me \ if thesesame woods and lakes and 

 rivers had tongues and knew how to use them what (pieer 

 tales they could tell, and what incidents would c^mie to 

 lio-ht that now slide into the past unstoried and unrecorded! 

 Here, in this very wilderness, hunting, fishing and 

 pleasure parties yearly congregate, and among the latter 

 is plenty of fit food for Cupid's ])owder. Young and 

 beautiiul girls with enough will, >kill and ingenuity to 

 ]niddle their own canoe and make love at the same time 

 if their chaperones are sleepy enough to permit the per- 

 formance of such a double barreled programme. 



These fishing and pleasure parties remain no longer 

 than the middle or latter part of September, but while 

 they're here the crafty little winged god is uy to his chin 

 in business, and to be hit with Cupid's arrow is as com- 

 mon as trouble. Ah, 



" Cupid is :i knavish lad 

 Thus to make poor fcmnles marl." 



P.ut, with all due respect to William Shakespeare I 



would remiiKl him that it is not from out the female sex 



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