CLinip to come to. a roaring fire, an abundance of the finest 

 game in the worUl to eat, clear spring water (a mineral 

 spring at thaP to drink, good appetites an-l rugged 

 strength to go out upon a big tramp every day, no matter 

 whether the weather is what it ought to be or whether il 

 isn't. 



It is asserted that at least fifteen hundred sportsmen 

 are now in the Maine woods. If so, there'll be fully two 

 thousand guides, making an army of say three thousand 

 five hundred people, many of them with only a week or 

 ten days' time at their disposal, and some of them accom- 

 panied by ladies. So, while it is bad for us it is nuich 

 worse for •• the other fellers, " whose short supply of time 

 won't allow them to wait for the glad sunshine to come. 

 Whv, therefore should we complain? 



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