AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED 



Down on the " Big Lake " there is a colony of 

 camps presided over by a withered little man by 

 the name of Hewey. One of the Judges of the 

 Supreme Court of Massachusetts came there one 

 season to spend a portion of his vacation, and 

 Hewey showed him to his quarters, a detached 

 log-cabin, which he was to occupy by himself 

 alone. His Honor gazed around doubtfully and 

 seemed somewhat disturbed by his surroundings. 

 " I do not know that I quite like this. It seems 

 very lonely. What would one do, for instance, 

 if one were taken ill at night ? " 



" Oh, that 's all right," replied Hewey, cheer- 

 fully. " All you 've got to do is to come to yer 

 door an' yell ' Hewey ' like h — 1." 



It may as well be confessed that Hortense is 

 not a large woman, and her son, as is natural and 

 proper, takes after her. As for myself, I never 

 was remarkable for the robustness of my figure, 

 so that a large and bulgy wife would have been 

 quite inappropriate for me. We went down 

 through the lakes one summer and stopped to 

 inspect these camps. While chatting pleasantly 

 with Hewey, my son passed, and he asked, "'S 

 that your boy ? " 



" Yes," I replied. 



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