2(> WHERE THE SPORTSMAN LOVES TO LINGER. 



The AVest Brancli at Northeast Carry is a slu<»«;ish, deep 

 stream, about two hundred feet in widrlh The water 

 courses of ^[aine are eitlier (h^ad water, (juick water, rap- 

 ids or falls. Wliat nicest strikes the tenderfoot as he em- 

 barks on one of tln^se canoe tri])s is the utter sih'me of that 

 vast rei^ion. The canoe cuts the water witli hardly a ri])- 

 ple, and the paddling' is as (piiet as the ^i-ave. Though the 

 dense juniiile tliat lines the i-ivei-s and encom]>asses the 

 lakes is inhai»ited every sipiare mih' by wild beasts, yet 

 all is still, 'i'he y(;nii,iLi' Jtre taniiht tliat silence is golden. 

 Even tlie breakinij^ of a twiii' mi^lit lead to instant death. 

 No bleat inu' of tlie calf for its mother, ncn- i'i<-r rcrsa. An 

 old cow in a town barn makes more noise than all the i;ame 

 in the State of Elaine. 



We had iionf^ down the st7-(^am al)out a cou])l(^ of miles 

 when, roundinii; a bend in the rixcr, one of the snides 

 called our attention to \\hat attpeared to be a red bnsh, 

 but was in reality a deer. Durinii what is known as the 

 'Sdosed season" the uame is very tame. Stand inii; on the 

 bank of the stri^am with a little fawn, it watidied us as we 

 passed. Wliat a shot it would have been! On account of 

 the frequcMit canoes passinii" betw(M'n Northeast Cai-ry and 

 Chesuncook Lake it is risky business to sn])])ly your larder 

 with deei' meat durinu:,- the (dosed season, but the oppor- 

 tunities Ave had that day were very tantalizinii'. We were 

 informed by the ouides that when we reached Chur(diill 

 Lake Ave would then be safe to toy with venison, so we 

 anxiously looked forward to our arrival there. 



While comino- up the lake from Kineo we ^^fell in" with 

 a friend we had met abroad, who spends a month or two 

 every summer on Lobster Lake. He claimed there Avas no 

 more l)eautiful body of water in this or foreij^n lands, and 

 prevailed upon us to make the side tidp into Lobster. Al- 



