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When the accident happened h(^ was seventy miles from 

 a p'lysician and nearly a hundred miles from a railroad. 

 He Avas placed in a bateau, rowed ten miles down Cham- 

 berlain, transferred into a canoe, taken up Mud Pond out- 

 let and across Mud Pond, transferred to a Ava2:on and 



"Suucook'"— storm Coming. 



transported over tlie rou«;]i and rocky ]Mud Pond Carry, 

 placed in a canoe, passed over Und)azookus Lake down the 

 nine miles of Umbazookns stream, across Chesuncook Lake, 

 and then poled and paddled twenty miles up the West 

 Branch to Northeast Carry, placed ajiain on a wagon, trans- 

 ported over the carry to Moosehead Lake and then twenty 

 miles by steamer doAvn the lake to Kineo, reaching a ])hysi- 

 cian thirty-six hours after the accident. How would that 

 strike the impatient invalid who growls at the nurse if his 



