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to be really a pleasure to do our own cooking. And again 
we say, that truly the good old Doctor was correct, when he 
advised ‘* keeping the feet warm and the head cool.” Ah-oo- 
0-0, speaks the loon, but not in his usual merry tone; it is 
his low, long-drawn cry, for he sees us putting on our coats 
and hats again, and no doubt he feels lonesome, and a bit 
sorry to have us leave now, we have become so well acquaint- 
ed and friendly. 
We pass close by the happy family, leaving them unharmed, 
to dive often and again, and to swim down and capture the 
little fishes all through the day, and at night, and at the mid- 
night hour, as the moon shines brightly out, to call and 
awake the echoes o’er and o’er, over the ridges and mountains 
far away. 
Islands ahoy! Even to-day, in the bright sunshine, you 
are looming up larger and more fair every moment as we 
approach you, and if it were possible, are looking more 
beautiful than ever as we greet you all. Your pretty trees 
again are lightly swaying with the breezes, while our mag- 
nificent friends, the eagles, soar high above your topmost 
branches. We pass close in by the granite foundations of the 
islands, their sea wall of protection, and presently, little by 
little, we feel the current aiding us as the lake narrows and 
the outlet is approached. The lake being full from the 
heavy rains, the water is running out over the old dam, and 
by its end it has found a new channel down through a portion. 
of the woods. We allow the bark to almost have her own 
way out of the lake, and as she feels this new current she 
goes slipping by the end of the dam into the old supply road, 
now flooded with the high water. Skipping quickly over, 
from an extra dip of the paddle, the old logs, which are 
