The Republican journal., 1875-10-28
Observations of Men and Things,
BY OUR GEORGE.

He CoNTINUETH HIS RAMBLE. We stand
on the platform Of the depot at Abbott Nor
rison and Hunting's six horse coach is ready
for passengers. Charles Lord is flying round,
getting the baggage ready and helping the pas
sehsers to seats. Charles is agent for the line,
anu looks out for things as though he had as
many eyes as potato. There is an opposition
me run by Frye, and perhaps on that account
arc all hands SO accommodating. Will Gurrill
holds the lines. He can hold anything but his
tongue, and that runs all the time, with a joke
or pleasant word to one and all. VIII is one
Of the incest Gurris we ever flirted with, and
all the resi- Of the girls like him, too. After we
are slowed away, and it takes stevedore to
make stowage, we find there are fourteen OF
us, and baggage to match. The coach was !,
| nine passenger one, and here came up a ques-
ton in arithmetic that only stage driver could
solve Fourteen into nine YOU can't, 50 we trans
pose things and put nine inside and carry six
on the outside. Among the party were four gen
tlemen whom Providence had kindly cast in our
wayne referto Providence, X. |. They are fly
fishermen; men who disdan To- catch trout.
| even though on the point of starvation, unless
table of the hotel, and when the waiter SAYS
"Broiled trout fried trout and trout" they turn
i'll their chair ana SYN trout for me- if YOU
please. never eat trout unless catch them"
And if they stick to that remark, ten changes to
one they will want some spruce gum to chew
before they get done their trip. These gentle
men each had Il book of flies. A book of flies
! is EurI.i> IN l., Il,
of parchment, in which are stuck the flies. and
the ''red IBIS and the .broWn hackle," and the
| "bug"and, worm, each i'll lis respective place.
One of the party had Il book of over fifteen dozen
| flies, and the expense of the book was over $50.
and 50 will buy 30 bushels of good potatoes or
"A nice meerschaum pipe We We're with this
gentleman nearly two days, and he looked at
his book of flies every two hours by the watch
| during that time. Though late in the season. it
was ust in the height of fly time with him. We
kept run of this party of four, and with Il guide
each, making eight in all, they only Killed about
| fifty pounds of trout more than they ate, in u
weeks time We We're not 50 particular how
we took our fish. We went determined 10 have
some, if they were to be had 1t was inmate
rial to lis whether we took them with fly or
shot them with Il gun; tished with bait and pole.
| or bowed them out of water with nitro glycrr-
| inc or rs a last resort, bought them. There are
Il great many selfish men round the lake. and
! there are also great many buy-1sh men, too
! Fly fishing, however. when done by profess
| siOnal, comes the nearest TO perfection in fish
ing of anything we have ever seen; but every
| greenhorn cannot do it, any more than man
can halt swallow spoon full of quicksilver and
then spit il out. Our ride WIS a rough one.
the roads being very muddy and much cut up
and full of lrts which is not to be wondered
at when we think that everything has to go
over this road to supply the whole of this por-
| lion OF the state, even TO the Canada line. We
passed through several very small villages, one
OF them shirley. We remembered that in par
| ticular, us wondered what possessed Char
lotte Bronte to come down to Maine just to
write a book about that town. Toward the lat
! ter part of the afternoon we arrived at the town
OF Greenyille, at the foot of the Lake. Green
willie is a town of some 400 OF 800 inhabitants,
and the qneere>t mixture Of people one can
find anywhere Here are Indians. French. Ca
nadians, Half Breeds, Trappers and Yankees.
Everything looks and denotes that You are
now on the ragged edge of the wilderness.
Canoes, fishing poles, landing nets, guns, rifles,
snow Shoes and traps. all tell Of "A sporting and
wild liic-and all the talk one hears relates in
some way 10 hunting, trapping on fishing. IIav
ing arrived at GrccnN ile the tourist shoIld
know What he wants TO do. Il he wishes to
fish and hunt little ride and row and live at Il
I.,b .,. l,I,, Il
TO choose between. Ii he wants TO fish some.
and cares not for rides, but wishes 10 enjoy the
pleasures of n fashionable summer watering
place hotel, thcn ne must go mp the lake 20
| miles to the hmeo House, where he viii find
| ample accommodation for one hundred and
| forty-nine others beside himself If he simply
wants 10 fish and hunt, then there are Two ways
| left for him, either to take guide and canoe
/ with camping outfit, OF guide and sal boat,
and start out roughing it.. BY all odds the bet
| ter way is the guide and boat. Here YOU can
take a tent, all your camping outfit Of bedding,
pots, pans, kettles and grab. and with canoe or
row boat on deck, go 10 any part of the lake,
| stop where you please, and 90 ashore and pitch
| your tent and remain rs long as you please,
and then pull up and 90 elsewhere. We ar
| rived at GrecnVie Saturday afternoon, and
| being DESTROYS of visiting kinco, we took the
| side wheel steamer GOV. Colburn, and Went up
| the lake. The sail on the steamer is one Of
| great beauty. On I'LL sides rising from the
shores of the lake are mountains. Old SquaW,
| Big and Little Spencer and the Lilly mountains,
while away OIL TO the right, fur beyond them
| all rises old Katahdin, whose top, now covered
| with snow, shone, As the sun east lis last rays
! upon it, like huge silver cap which cnycopcd
| it. We stood on the deck with our book and
| pencil in our hand gazing al thc beautiful scene,
when gentleman who did not seem TO be i'll
| quisitive at all, asked us ''what we were going
to sketch?' "Ketch any thing that bit at our
hook" NO. said he Il mean do you draw
We said we never could draw anything, not
even prize in a lottery. Then what was
that book in our hand:' Our note book, we
said. 'Well. please fill me ont Il note for 800
on three months and I'll take it without an en-
dorser,' said he as he moved away, before we
| had time to answer him with our boot. After
| Il delightful sail of two hours we arrived at
the wharf at Mount kineo when our baggage
| was put in an immense baggage wagon, drawn
| by very diminutve donkey, that had ears us
large as Il number one mackere. We after
| wards got fair look at him through a spy
glass, and should Judge he was some over Il
hundred years Old. A few rods from the wharf
on Il level plateau at the foot OF Mt. kineo
stands the kineO House, an excellent hotel
capable of accommodating oyer 100 guests, and
owned by Mr.. Chencry of Boston, gentle
man of wealth, and a great many high priced
cows and bulls, he being the owner Of stock
farm near Boston. The house is run by o. a.
DENIM, pleasant, agreeable gentleman who
| knows how to keep good hotel for tMo dol
lars and half day.
Nearly in the middle Of the lake, ona promon-
tory which is almost an island, rising abruptly
| from a level nlaicau. stands Mount kiuen On