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WllKKE THE .SPUKTS.MAX LOVES TO LINGER. 



lakes one of the ouides could })ic-k up w itli one hand and 

 shoulder Avitli little effort. Tlie t(^nt^ our house, wliicli 

 Avas to slielter us from the w iud and wcatlier, was a little 

 bundle not lari^'er tlian a pillow, nor niueli heavier. 



Tlie i>'uides soon had tlie canoes loaiknl, and witli an In- 

 dian in tlie stern of eacli, ]niddle in liand, tlie tiij) di)\vn the 



Northeast Carry, Moosehcad Lake 



AUaoash to the St. John, up the West Branch and dowu 

 the East Branch of the Penobscot, was on. Aloni^- this 

 four hundred miles of jungle one often sees the camps of 

 the young- men who used to spend theii' vacations on the 

 beach and in the ballroom, and generally returned home 

 depleted in purse and in worse physical condition than 

 wjien they left. One meets them at Kineo and Xorcross, 



