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6 NOTES OF THE HUNT. 



this country." After a smoke and a chat, we twain left 

 Baysville at 8, on Capt. Huckins' new screw steamer 

 Excelsior (75 feet keel and 30 horse power), for D wight 

 P. O., at the head of Trading Lake, while the quar- 

 tette remained, "Budge" to join his Ochtwan party, 

 the other three homeward bound, to take waggon for 

 Bracebridge in the early morning. Ten o'clock at 

 night found us at Trading Lake House, the name given 

 by Mr. Wiman to Mrs. Gouldie's new and commodious 

 hotel, which is post-office, express office, headquarters 

 for all lumbermen, trappers or travellers by this route, 

 while it is in fact home for members and friends of the 

 Dwight- Wiman Club. An old country welcome was 

 given to the trio by Mrs. Gouldie, Miss Laidlaw, and 

 " Ed.," the familiar title of Mr. Gouldie, who has been 

 the trusted adviser and chief guide of the Club in these 

 waters for a dozen years. 



Dwight, Tuesday, Sept. 30th." 



PAVING left our club suits* in the safe keeping of 

 Mrs. Gouldie, and donned the most approved 

 style of old clothes, we two left Trading Lake House 

 at -8:30 for camp, accompanied by Gouldie, his brother 

 Archie and Tom Keown. The walk to Cooper's Lake 

 served as an introduction to the glories of the woods. 

 " The leaves never colored so early since I have been in 

 this district," said Edward, " and if you had come up 

 Trading Lake by daylight you would have seen colori:> 

 on its shores you never saw before." No leaves had 

 fallen ; and all around and above us was the red and 

 yellow and orange of the soft maple, shading into green 



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