WIIKKE THE SrORTSMAX LOVIOS TO LINGER. 01 



CHAPTEPv V. 



FORT KENT TO WEST RRAXdl, MOT'NT KATAHDIN. 



Fort Kent i-cMallcd tlie exciring political contest "when 

 she went for (Governor Kent, Tippecanoe, and Tvler, too.'' 

 Among the other attractions of the i)lace, we visited the 

 liistoric old blocklionse. At Fort Kent Ave were to take the 

 railroad for Norcross, a town one hundred miles south, 

 where the West Branch trip usually ends. ^Ve were agree- 

 ably surprised to find such good hotel accommodations at 

 these little froiitier towns. As we entered the room of the 

 hotel we were pleased and astonished to find it crowded 

 with a bevy of young, handsome and frolicking girls. In- 

 (juiring of tlie waiter who they wercs lu^ informed us they 

 were '^the clioi'iis of the show to-nig1it.'' It seems many 

 theatrical troupes follow the vacationists to Maine. Sev- 

 eral of the young ladies insisted on dining at the same 

 table with our guides, and kept u]) (piite a fiirtation with 

 the noble red men, greatly to th(^ amusement of the guests, 

 ])ut to the discomfiture of the Indians. After dinner we 

 asked the Kineo guide what he thought of the girls, 'vlleap 

 fine squaws." We Avent to the show, of course, and the 

 revelry of the night ])rought back to our recollection the 

 Kialto in little old New York. 



\\'e dreaded the railroad ride, as we expected in this far- 

 otf wilderness to fiml dirty and broken-down rolling stock, 



