Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-24

town with pretty little rapid A rapid in
which 1t Is almost impossible to upset. but in
which two rising business men of Boston
did succeed In upset ing last year by dint
of advanced theories on the parallelogram
of forces applied without sufficient allow
anbe for the sense of harmony true
Yankee streams. All! it was sad to see my
friend Natleigh standing up to his knees
In water In his sunken canoe, his nice shoes
and stockings and his nice kniekerbockers
getting wet, his nice canoe cover, extra
paddle, and Persian wealth generally.
strewing the cru, waters. 1t was sad.
but the local small boy did not think so.
The local small boy has the same genuine
Ill VIII to man IN canoe that he has to
man on horseback or on bicycle; he
throws stones at him, wishes him i'll luck,
Jeers at his success, and rejoiees over bis
mlsfortunes. | like small boys, but not
when | am canoeing. unless when some
other man upsets. On the occasion II
question should probably have indulged
IN more levity myself ii the local small
Boy, IN convention assembled, had not
helped me out in that particular.
Rock bottom, as have said is pretty
place, but one gets almost too much of it.
You pass 1t exactly FIVE times in going
down the Assabet. The stream goes round
and round it in a spiral, until you get
positively dizzy. Finally there is a gap
between two hills and you fly off at tam
gent toward Maynard. All along this part
OF the river there are people fishing for
p.ckerel. We saw one man catch a pick
erel, and good string, some weighing
over pound was held up for US to look at.
don't know where they brought them.
There are also legends of trout and of
black bass.
Just above Maynard there is dam,
with really heavy rapid just below it,
when there Is enough water. have been
upset in that rapid and ought to know.
The canoe, of the occasion which | refer to,
got on rock and would net come off.
Finally she upset up-stream-the worst
game canoe can put ON you-and got
jammed so that it was very hard to get
her OF. When canvas canoe gets in that
position, she sometimes carries the Jest al
most to an extreme by turning inside out
like glove, and the bending backwards
round the rock. But this time there was
not water enough, and we carried round,
and then slid and bumped down The tick
ling little swiit-water at Maynard.
Some way below Maynard there is dam
and very pretty little eauseway with will
lows and a bridge-framehouse with big
elm-pretty New England roat and road
slde--a typical little village scene, with
pretty bend under high pine covered
bank just below. There we took lunch.
1t was running hard, there had been all
the morning just enough rain to bring out
the colors but not to wet us. Now it came
down hard, and we lunehed like two tramps
hsx-, q.
crosses the river by bridge of which the
spans are made by big slabs of stone
reaching from one pier to the other Just
below the Concord Reformatory the stream
Is full of muskrats. But what the con-
nectlon Is do not know, but much is the
fact. A more agreeable neighbor of the
unfortunates at Concord prison is the little
pae-blue Housatonia, which makes the
helds look white about there in the spring,
and keeps up the spirits of the canoeist
passing the prison, until, passing under
a railroad bridge, he finds himself in Con-
cord proper, the home of Hawthorne and
Emerson, and of many associations dear
most beautiful wooded bits on the whole
river brings US to the junction with the
Musketaquid, or Sudbury River, coming
lazily down from the neighbo1 of
Lake Cochituate A short distance down
stream is the bridge where the history of
the United States began. At one en'l of
the bridge is the grave of six British
soldiers, Il field, path with tick pines,
and The Old Manse'g at the other end
is French's statue of minute man.
A short paddle up stream to the first
road bridge, an eighth of a mile with the
canoe on your head to the freight house,
a ticket for Boston, and you have said
good-by to the Assabet.