Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-09-20

distance which the other fellow Is TO travel.
/ And can we ind the road all rightly!
NO, / shouldn't say 1t was six miles,
replied Barnes And as for finding the
road, you can't miss it, for there Is only
one and II leads straight to Moore's board
ing house. where you will probably want 10
put up while you are there. II you want
| 10 20 | will show you where the road starts
in out here back Of the house
After a consultation we decided that we
would try it, and so advised our host We
did not expect to stay long, and would in
al probability return that evening as Il
proEised TO be only about an hours walk
20 we did not change our clothes for more
suitable ones. Yorker | remember was
wearing the whitest Of white linen, late
Summer tie OF delicate eolors and new
light suit just from his tailor's.
Under Barnes guidance it was an easy
matter to find the starting point Of what
he said was a good wagon road. Tho
other end OF il was harder to find. and II
fact we never did find it. We traced it on;
INTO the timber for always, then unto
big rock, and then it disappeared. W.
afterwards found traces Of either that road
OF others, we could not tel which, but one
and all Of them would appear and disap
pear with the same lack Of regularity. Al
times it would be a mass Of logs rolled TO
gs,her into a slough, over which the hum
bermen drag their log sleds in the winter
time, then out upon rock where Il would
end again. Then al times il would be a
path through the timber. and then again
nothing These paths we would trace into
deserted lumber camps, and ont Of them
would be leading a dozen jus; such paths
that looked all alike.
We crossed brooks and climbed up and
down the sides OF great rocks that nothing
better than mountain goats among four
footed animate could ever have gotten over
Before the end Of the first hour we had
lost and found that road, or Others, many
times, but we had not found the lake. At
the end Of the second hour we still had
not found the lake, but we had walked at
least SIX miles. So it kept on for FIVE long
hours without meeting a single soul, and
without seeing a single habited building
At traces Of 8 road, a path or even q tran
had long since disappeared; we were lost
Listen, said Yorker.
He's not an ounce under FIVE pounds,
came from the dense ihicket ahead OF us,
and we knew that we had found the fish. |
ermen at kah-pee -kog lake.
The boarding house 10 which we had been |
sent had a monopoly Of the business Of the |
place as we soon learned. At Barnesdale, |
II miles away, and u long miles al that. /
was the nearest competition, and Moore |
was ready to make the best Of the oppor /
Iuniiies his situation afforded. SIX dollars
! night for the two Of Us was the price de-
paid Al that price we were
privileged to cook our OWL meals, as Moore,
was host. cook and ehambermaid, was
ilst leaving. Whether he intended 10 give
u deed 70 the little cabin OF not we never
new, nor did we care. We paid the six
loIlars and slept.
But eventually that six dollars paid for
more than our nights lodging. Il paid our
membership fee into the Kah-pee kog club.
There at the pretty little lake. surrounded
" dense forests which the hand Of man
az hardly touched. we met the Pastor.
nd smith, ard Husky Bill ami "Short
3ilI." and Tee and others, al Of them
members Of the Kah-ree-kog club good Eel
avs and good fishermen They took us
Inder the protection q their more extend
d experience and provided Us with the nee
ssaries Of life in that wild country, which |
fe bad been too ignorant to provide for
ourselves.
IL the course q time we returned n
.arnesdaie 10 present a Just grievance to
barnes. but when we tod him q the
-oables into which be had led US he only
-ufled. and seemed 10 enjoy the joke.
WRIGHT A PATTERSON