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contrivance that covered us, with curiosity and distrust and the slight- 

 est movement of the cloth was sufficient to start some keen eyed indi- 

 vidual into a frenzy of excitement. 



This island also abounded in Petrel burrows and there were more 

 Guillemots than on the large island. On one end of the island we saw 

 about a hundred of them at a time sitting in rows on the edges of the 

 large boulders where the spray from the breaking surf continually 

 dashed over them. 



The morning upon which we were to return home dawned clear, with- 

 out a vestige of fog or mist so that, for the first time during our visit, 

 we could plainly see Little Duck Island from our house, and also 

 Mount Desert in the distance. Soon we also saw the little launch puff- 

 ing noisily toward the island meaning that our stay was about at an 

 end, and much as we regretted leaving just as the sunshine had come, 

 after four days of fog, business demanded it. As we stood in the stern 

 of the steamer and watched the islands fade away in the distance, it 

 was with the hope that next year about two weeks earlier might find 

 us in the same place. 



Many yachts, owned by wealthy summer residents of Bar Harbor, 

 passed, the island. 



