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let the ladies be assured they can hunt and fish in the 

 Adirondacks quite as well as gentlemen ; and if they will, 

 they can shoot deer as often as their husbands (the guide 

 holding the animal as aforesaid). 



At Smith's, you will select your guides and purchase 

 outfit and provisions. Smith has every requisite and lux- 

 ury on hand. The guides are in general a fine set of 

 good-hearted, simple-minded, noble fellows; excellent 

 company in the forest, well acquainted with its sights and 

 sounds, its language, that to you may be unintelligible, 

 but to them is like English to an Englishman, they can 

 translate to you a thousand written tales on wood and 

 water, on hill and rock. Not unsusceptible to poetry, 

 they will appreciate the beauty of that language, even 

 more keenly than you, until you learn their simplicity of 

 thought. "Learn simplicity," said I? well, it may per- 

 haps be acquired. 



