DWIGHT-WIMAN CLUB. 



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The promptness with which most of the boys re- 

 turned to Camp testified to the interest feh in the 

 promised visit of the ladies. Some chag^rin was shown, 

 by certain fellows who shall be nameless, that Matthews 

 should have been sent to the lake nearest to Dwight 

 P. O., and so enabled to enjoy, solus, their companion- 

 ship on his homeward trip. Mr. Wilkinson, of the 

 culinary department, we found had kept his weather 

 eye to the southward for the fair ones, being as obser- 

 vant as he was susceptible. And indeed he prepared 

 an excellent spread, ready for the table the moment 

 Wiman should make his appearance. 



Great scorn was heaped upon Hedley for putting on 

 a paper collar for the occasion ; but when Robert had 

 attired himself, as Mark Twain puts it, by mounting a 

 diamond pin and turning down the foot of his trousers, 

 and when even Tom, who is too old a hunter to sacri- 

 fice ?nuch to appearances, wore his Club suit, it was 

 surely permissible for the historian to sport his solitary 

 bit of finery. Tinker, who was late in arriving from 

 his far north post, had to dress very hurriedly, but did 

 not forget the butterfly bow in his neck tie. 



Mrs. Gouldie, her husband, our chief guide, Miss 

 Laidlaw, and Miss Blackwell arrived about noon in 

 canoes, accompanied by the brothers of the young lad\- 

 last named. Met at the landing and carefully assisted 

 up the freshly sanded slope, the ladies were shown into 

 the Club House. The reader's imagination will please 

 supply the following sub-divisions of the i8 x 24 apart- 

 ment for the purposes of this our first reception at 

 Camp Chandler. ^ 



Chairs were placed for the visitors in the Recfption 

 Room (the space at the north end surrounding the fire 



