Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-13

1 and close up! no tagging herel The berry l grounds are the place for bears at this sea 1 son of the year. We notice their tracks | The Maine bear is very fond of the blueber-
 ry and we can't blame him, they are so large 1 and fine.
 At last arrive at the hotel in Rangeley the Rangeley Lake House, our last stopping place before we go into Kennebago, about | ten miles into the woods and where we can ride horseback or walk. We walk Our baggage goes in on the sled. No buck board can get in here. We have been very success ful and find that our old guide, Grant, is dis engaged and that he will camp out up the
 lake with We find when we arrive at
 Kennebago after our long walk through the
 woods-wbere we came across plenty of
 bear tracks--that there have beon some
 changes. Messrs. Grant and Richardson
 have built a comfortable and commodious house at the head of the lake, and all guests
 are we'll taken care of. The Doctor says the
 kitchen floor is clean enough to eat of of
 and everything Is about the same all through
 the house. It is better kept house, though
 it is made of spruce, with paint and ten
 miles from civilization, than many hotel of
 greater pretensions. They have the best of
 coffee and plenty of milk and cream The
 COWS are turned loose into the woods every
 morning and they find their way home at
 night we'll filled.
 After pleasant stop for 8 day or two at
 the hotel, where we find our old friend and
 guide, Grant, we pack our supplies into
 boats and start for our old camp at the foot
 of the lake, five miles. Just before we start
 we say good bye to party of gentlemen who
 are bound for the Seven Ponds. Their
 course Is the same ours down Kennebago
 only they go about ten miles still further into
 the woods than we do. Trout and game are
 more plenty in the wild Seven Ponds than at
 Kennebago Lake, but it is long distance and hard 'carry," and as we can any day catch more hna trout than we can eat, and see plenty of deer and moose tracks where we are, our camp at Kennebago is gareey enough for us. We have been in camp here now three days. MT. Grant does our cook
 ing and guiding and we live high. Yesterday our bill of fore was fried trout, caught with
 fly, mock turtle soup, pork and potatoes, excellent biscuit meue by Grant, plum pud-
 ding, good coffee and Scotch ale, left two
 his fri end MT. Ward. At what other place would box of this kind be kept on call with out lock and key for two years Comment is Unnecessary.
 Some one of US goes out every day with 1 the boat, takes his rod and makes Q catch of 1 trout. We don't save more than we need to ! cook, but can catch all we need for the l table weighing from half pound to pound. l We can catch larger ones fishing with bait l deeper, but we are fly fishing and not bait fish, | ing.
 ! To-day we have been on little excursion down the lake and then up Kennebago stream to the little Kennebsgo Lake About three miles into the wild wood we came
 upon flock of cartridges eating wild cranberries on the edge of the stream. They kept on eating and though the boat passed within ten feet of them were not disturbed. The doctor had his rife, but unfortunately the revolver was | left at camp. Grant is great shot with revolver well rife. There were plenty of bear tracks on the way. One could see where they had gnawed off the alders on the l river bank. There were also plenty of fresh tracks of moose where they had crossed and recrossed the stream. Deer tracks were everywhere to be seen. Deer are very plenty in this section of Maine this year. We also started up a pair of large blue herons and several focks of black ducks. We had very enjoyable day boating on the lake, casting for trout, enjoying the beautiful mountain scenery and air, and last but not least picking about two quarts of very large blueberries in the woods, where there were any quantity of them. By the way, I forgot to mention that we in camp. The rain came down in sheets, the lightning was vivid and the thunder very heavy. Before came into Kennebago we heard at Rangeley that man and boy from New York who were camping out one of the lakes had strayed away and were missing Parties were sent out to search for them, but we had not heard of their being found when
 we left Grant made us some excellent corn
 dodgers for supper. They were first rate,
 with maple syrup. All are asleep in camp but
 myself, and the squirrels are having great
 time on the roof of our log cabin. Good
 night. E. T. c.