24 WHERE THE SPOKTSMAX LOVES TO LIXCJEK. 



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FROM :\rr)osE[n:Ai> to cnEsrxrooK lake. 



OxeV' i'lrst ('\|M'ii('ii((' in -a cniKX' is -i feeling' of niiccr- 

 taiiity, ('X])(M-tiiiu cNcrv iiiojiiciit lo Ik' upset and, <m account 

 of its frailty, to sec it crnslicd like an c,m^ shell : yet a ca!io(» 

 is as tonsil as a ]>nuilist trained foi- a ])rizc-ti,i:lit. It is snr- 

 ])risin!Li the rocks it can lam into and on {op of with nil any 

 api)arent damage, an.d the heavy loads i' can carry. 



We were surprise(l and annised at a load the owner of 

 a, liotel for lund)erinen, ten miles below the cai*ry, was pnt- 

 tin,i»' into his canoe. The man himself weighed al least tlirc^e 

 luindrcMl ])onnds, and he was loadini: the canoe with two 

 barrels of kerosene. As he started away the canoe sank 

 so deep in tlu^ water that it looked as if tw() keioseiie bar- 

 rels and a fat man w(M'e tloatinii' on the sni-face. The fellow 

 was so fat his ^liabi^as corpus" extended beyond tln^ canoe 

 and hunij,' (tver the sides lik(^ the jowls of the ])i'ize porker 

 at a county fair. About all you could see of the canoe was 

 the ])oints at each end, remindinu' us of the jack trains in 

 tlie ininiuii' r(\iiions of Colorado as we have seen them cooing 

 up the mountain trail loaded with provender and material 

 for the mines above. Al)out all you could see of the jacks 

 were their ears. 



The canoe and bat(^au are the means of transportation 

 over the rivers and smaller lakes of Maine. Thev eorre- 



