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started for home, deciding to go up the brook and learn its source.
Two names are under consideration for our new camp: --either
Piney Camp or Camp Devastation.  Not far from our camp we
came to two rocks, near them was a tree from which I got
a pretty moss.  We followed the stream up some distance
when, looking through the trees we saw a wood-chopper cabin.
Soon we heard him with his ax not far off.  We approached
the cabin and came to a large clearing, here and there were
immense piles of cord wood.  We now saw the wood-chopper,
he had just succeeded in cutting down one of those tall pines.
He was a German.  We learned from him the the place was
being cleared for farms.  Not far off we saw another clearing
and a house.  Here we learned lives Mr. Wingert.  On our
way to his home I picked up the horns of a ram.  Each horn
seems to be double, a smaller one inside of the outer one
which curves very gracefully and seems to have been built up
of successive secretions causing the horn to be beautifully
marked.  Mr. W. who came out to meet us, recognised the
horns as those from  his ram.  From him we learned the
route to G. and also that his son was at Mrs. K's at G.  We now

        