The visitors, by the force of circumstances, are 

 obliged to have guides whose particular policy it is to 

 "speed the parting 'sport' and welcome the coming 

 one." In the various places where these guides meet, 

 Greenville, Kineo, Northeast Carry, Chesuncook House, 

 Mud Carry, Eagle Lake or Churchill Lake and hundreds 

 of other places, there's a gi'eat comparing of notes of the 

 many things said and the many things done by the de- 

 parted guests. As I have already liinted, I may at some 

 future time give you the pith of a few of these notes. 



It is surprising how many Philadelphians there are 

 already in the woods for the fall hunting, which started 

 October ist, and how many more we hear of that are 

 coming. Every hotel register is well sprinkled with 

 names of residents of our Quaker City, more, I think, 

 than from any other place. One of my guides hurt his 

 knee, so that the limb swelled to double its natural size. 

 I was considering how I could send him home (a journey 

 by canoe, of over five days, which with five more days, 

 for the return of the guide who took him out, made the 

 matter a very serious one). He relieved my mind, how- 

 ever, by telling me he had heard of a doctor who was 

 camped at the head of a bog a few miles awa\-. I put my 

 man at once into a canoe and paddled up to the tent ot 

 the Esculapian disciple whom I found to be an eminent 

 one and a Philadelphian. After looking at the man's 

 damaged limb, he .said : "Well, I am an expert, or con- 

 sidered so, on insanity, and perhaps on one or two other of 

 nature's calamities, but I am not an expert on swelled legs. 

 However, this is what I advise you to do." And he told 

 him. The doctor's advice .seems to have been — what a 



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