MEN OF MAINE 



camp two sportsmen had a bottle of claret be- 

 tween them, and Jim expected much when his 

 turn at the table came. To his disgust, when 

 his employers had moved to the doorway and 

 Jim was ready to sit down, he found the remain- 

 ing half bottle had been corked up and put back 

 on the shelf After taking in the full significance 

 of the situation, Jim turned to his fellow-guide 

 and said, " Billy, do you know, this is the first 

 time in three year I Ve sat down to my dinner 

 without my claret." 



While the house was being built, we lived for 

 a time at the little hotel in Insley, and one of the 

 interesting characters of the region. Squire Burke, 

 made the hotel his home. He took great interest 

 in our operations on the island, and one evening 

 while sitting with him in the office, he asked me 

 impressively, — 



"What, Mr. Dexter, do you propose to do 

 about guests ? " 



"Do about them? I hardly understand you." 



"Well," he continued, waving his hand now 

 and then with a peculiar little jerk with which he 

 invariably punctuated his sentences, — "Well, I 

 suppose you will have guests at times." 



"Yes," I answered, "undoubtedly." 

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