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used to say you had rather catch one good bass 
than twenty trout.” 
Satisfied that he could attend to his own fish- 
ing I then let out my line and we both had busi- 
ness to attend to. In three hours we had as 
many bass as we would want for the hotel din- 
ner and a fine string beside, and although we 
still had a couple of days to spare ere Andrew 
|'would have to leave to meet his New York 
party, I thought he would enjoy the time at his 
home, and arranged with Jim to take him and 
his bass and the paddle by buggy after dinner 
over to the ferry for Cape Vincent that he might 
|put his boat on the afternoon train and go to 
Lowville and thence to his home, and he de- 
parted a happy and well pleased man, promising 
‘to meet me at Paul Smith’s on a given date 
‘twelve days later. 
I remained during the week ensuing and had 
very good sport. Here I had previously met a 
Mr. H. from Troy, N. Y., who was an enthu- 
siastic angler, but unfortunately having lost his 
hearing by going down in a caisson while en- 
gaged in bridge building, could not hear my con- 
versation or even my cornet and was obliged 
to use pencil, except with his guide, who had 
learned the sign language. At the time alluded 
ito there were five sportsmen stopping at Con- 
ley’s and I proposed a game of five hand euchre 
and asked him in writing if he knew the game. 
As he did not I insisted upon writing out full 
instructions, notwithstanding his protest, and he 
enjoyed the game very much and thanked me 
heartily for a pleasant evening, and was ever 
lafter a devoted friend. One evening during’ my 
present sojourn we saw him and his guide ap- 
proaching the dock and I went down to meet 
him, and grasping his hand tightly and placing 
my left hand upon his shoulder, I forgot for 
the moment his infirmity and exclaimed: 
“Mr. H., I am delighted to see you again!’ 
\He started and said: 
“Why, Whitaker, I can hear you!” and we 
lwere glad that when in that position we could 
tasily converse, and I did not have to talk much 
jouder than my ordinary tone, but distinctly 
jmunciate my words. I afterward tried the 
|nethod with other parties who were deficient in 
hearing and with good results. 
|O communicate the sound. 
At the end of the week Charley and I re- 
urned to Cape Vincent, and I boarded the train 
vith a nice basket of bass and went up to Water- 
‘own, met old friends, and the bass were ap- 
»reciated. After a day there I took the train for 
Voira where I remained over night, and next 
lay went by the train on the northern Adiron- 
lack branch up to St. Regis Falls and so on 
‘long the middle branch of the St. Regis to the 
erminus at the foot of Buck Mountain, and then 
yy the stage line past the Follensbee Junior 
wake, Barnum’s and Osgood ponds, pulling up 
t Paul Smith’s hostelry at the foot of the lower 
>t. Regis Lake where the outlook from the porch 
3 very attractive, the St. Regis Mountain in plain 
‘lew at the southwest, and Saddleback, White 
“ace, McKenzie and others at the southeast. I 
vas told that Smith was an old time guide who 
inally built a little inn, which became so well 
atronized that he built addition after addition 
nd enlarged until it became quite a pretentious 
stablishment and was always filled during the 
ummer season. After dining, as I was seated 
m the veranda conversing with a gentleman 
‘whose acquaintance I had formed, I noticed two 


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boats coming side by side through the Spitfire 
into the upper end of the lake, and after a 
moment’s observation said to my companion: 
“Yonder comes my man on time.” 
“T do not understand how you can say that,” 
he replied. “I can see two boats in the distance, 
but could not without a glass see who was in 
either.” 
“Neither can IJ, but that is surely my man 
Andy rowing the boat at the right. I know his 
stroke,” was my response, and as they approached 
I said, “I am right, and in the other boat is my 
friend, Mr. Phillips, from Philadelphia, with Jim 
LaMont at the oars.” 
I went to the boat house and we exchanged 
greetings. The. others had made their first trip 
to that portion of the Adirondacks and were to 
return with us. Next day we started, going 
through the Lower St. Regis, Spitfire and Upper 
St. Regis, the latter shaped somewhat like a 
Maltese cross, and all charming lakes with many 
a camp and cottage at cosy nooks and points 
about the wooded shores, and my cornet brought 

RUNNING THE RAPIDS BETWEEN UPPER 
many to the front as we moved leisurely along. 
Finally we sought the carry on the southern 
shore of the western arm that we might go by 
the Ten Carry route through to the upper Sara- 
nac. The usual route is from the southern end 
or head of the Upper St. Regis over a one and 
one-half mile carry into Big Clear, but I had 
been that way and ‘my friends had come that 
way, sO we were agreed on the route. We car- 
ried over the steep bank and were presently in 
the first of the chain of five ponds known as 
the Spectacle Ponds, and passed from one to 
the next,, finally dropping into St. Regis Pond, 
and from that a carry of a mile brought us to 
Little Clear Pond, then a portage of one and 
one-quarter miles to Green Pond, and a short 
one, and we were at the head of Upper Saranac 
Lake. The view from the inn is a fine one, and 
since the building of a railroad, is a point easily 
reached. It was high twelve, but all preferred 
to go ten miles to the foot of the lake and dine 
at Coville’s, then a log structure where now the 
Wabeek Inn is located. 
Our passage down was a pleasant one and 
the charming islands and beautiful scenery ever 
varying, and the different views of the high 
Adirondack peaks at the east and southeast quite 
entrancing, and from a number of them Andrew 
and myself had looked at this lake. Reaching 
Coville’s I said to. Mrs. C. that our party had 
passed Saranac Inn in order to get one of her 
famous square meals. She held up her hands 
and said: “Oh! Mr. Whitaker, I am awful 
sorry, for it will be some time before I can get 
you any dinner. My dining room is set for 
President Cleveland and party whose dinner is 
now ready to take up, and I am expecting them 
every moment *to come over the carry, and it 
would be at least an hour before I could begin 
for you.” 
I said that if she would furnish the stuff we 
would go outside and cook and eat by camp-fire. 
At that moment a boy came in and handed a note 
to Mrs. C., who having read it, joyously said: 
“Tt is all right now, the President has written 
us that his party will be two hours late and 
wants a fresh dinner prepared, so your party 
can sit right down and eat this one.” I went 
out and reported, and we quickly came in to 
dine. I was given the President’s chair and 
addressed as “Mr. President,’ while the others 
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AND LOWER SARANAC LAKES. 
were called Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs, Folsom and 
Dr. Ward, and we had a merry time and an 
enjoyable meal. We then went on over the three 
mile carry to Raquette River, down which we 
had gone about a mile when we saw the ap- 
proach of the three boats of the presidential 
party. In advance was President Cleveland with 
his oarsman anda fine buck that had fallen to his 
rifle. I picked up my cornet and played, “See! 
the Conquering Hero Comes,” and as we neared 
told the others to join in a salute and three 
cheers, and as we passed compliments were ex- 
changed and good-byes spoken. Then, thinking 
it possible that I might later want to ask a favor, 
apply for a position, or to be appointed post- 
master, I endeavored to impress it upon the mind 
of the President by playing as expressively as 
I could, “Should Auld Acquaintance Be For- 
got,” and thus ended a very pleasant episode 
which none of the participants will forget. 
Passing on through the Raquette we arrived in 
due time at Tupper Lake and were shortly quar- 
tered at Mart Woody’s. Mart was famous as a 
raconteur and could draw the long bow to per- 
fection. In the morning we went leisurely up 
the lake viewing the islands and the heights of 
Mt. Morris adjacent, until reaching the upper 
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