Wichita eagle., 1888-07-11
TIE NORTH WO0DSGUIDES
WHAT THEY HIVE TO DO FOR TIE
TOURISTS THEY LOOK AFTER.

Boyhood of the Future Guide-Outlt and
Accomplishments OF an Adirondack
Confederation of Camps-CooLins and
Camp Work-Floating for Deer.
According to their stories, the guides are
usually sons of farmers or lumbermen, and
are reared on the borders of the big woods
They begin to fish for trout in the nearest
brook about as soon as they can walk, and
before they are able to hold gun ofhand
they have been provided with an old Inusket
which has been bored out and thus made a
shotgun Very often the guide kills bis first
deer before he is In his teens, and instances
of boys of tender years killing bear arc
scarcely uncommon. Such boys roam the
woods with no more danger Of getting lost or
turned around than a city boy would find in
walking from City Hall to the Battery in
New York city.
But travelling through the woods without
getting lost is one of the least of the accom-
plishments Of an Adirondack guide More
than that, the guide must be capitalist. He
carries with him thirteen foot cameo and an
assortment of fishing tackle in pack basket
that seemed large enough 20 stock country
store. Although the club has no end Of boats
and scows on Bisby lake, the guides must
furnish their own boats for use on Moose
river and Canachasala lake While the
sportsman always fishes with bis own tackle,
the guide must have an abundant supply Of
lines and hooks, too, including set or night
lines for taking the big ones that viii not
rise to a fly, and the reason for this viii ep-
pear further on.
KITS FOR THE CAMP.
Besides these, the guide must own at least
one good kit OF cooking utensils The Bisby
guides generally own from two to Eve kits
each, and each kit is kept hidden ia the
woods at such points on Moose river and the
lakes as the sportsman is likely to visit when
hunting and fishing. This saves the labor o.
carrying kit from one place to another, a
matter of no small Importance At these
points. too, the guides erect camps, in which
u party may lodge over night In comfort,
rain OF shine, Tho camp is simply log hut
rooted with spruce bark, and frequently
without doors or windows. But there is
good fireplace, and generally a supply Of dry
wood Since good canoe delivered on the
river Is worth $50 and a camp kit IS. the
guide who is well supplied with these aud
with fishing tackle. dogs and rifles Is a CAPT
talist TO the amount Of sIO9 az least.
Disaster, however. may sometimes over
take the camp kits and camps located In
favorable places on the river and lakes Food
is frequently left with the kit, and If d bear
comes along he ia sure to smell It Even
when no food is there he viii smell the kit,
and, having no fear under such c.rcum-
stances, goes in and stirs up the camp in
way that is exasperstfng. Frequently the
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after long day spent in wading the river
70 fad the .snware scattered AID tina tod
eaten end DESTROYED by 4 bear.
The amount OF luggage which the city
requires when going 70 rough is
At the club house In the Ad.rondacks soue-
times makes the guides grcan in secres. bit
never openly. There are baskets OF vino,
cases Of beer ind darai johns Of Equs1-, bs-
s.des boxes Of canned goods AID t-z1zxa Of
clothing, not 70 Ineation six umbrellas and
aat boxes, GIL Of which fad place ia many
outfta II tie sg1ortr1z-l Be an
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