The sun., 1903-12-06
ADIRONDACK SPEECH.
A sample Of the Way In which the Guides
Enjoy Their Leisure.


Among the upper ten Of guidedom in
the Adironeiacks il seems to be considered
the proper thing TO feign certain amount
bf dignified deafness. In the same way
1t is thought to be improper to admit any
truth directly. or to make a concession
! without much parley.
For example, here is a conversation
that occurred between two we'll seasoned
guides who were seated behind the writer
In a wagon making its way through GER
something like this, often with long pauses
First guide Good season for potatoes.
Second guide-Heigh2
First guide douder)-Good season for po-
tatoesl
Second g,ude--Yes. Long pause oc-
cupied in chewing.l Amt many apples
+ this year.
First guide-Heigh?
Second guide-Aint many apples this
First guide-Do you callate tc put an
addit ion onto your barn?
Second guide-Heigh2
First guide-Be you goin to put an ad-
dition onto your barn?
Second gude-l presume likely. tPause.]
Hear you're putting wing onto your
house.
First guide Heigh?
Second gude-Hear your wing going up
pretty stiddy when ] IN to home.
First guide-Un! Lumbers pretty high
these days.
Second guide-Heigh?
First guide-Say lumbers pretty high
now
Second guiden7so's hay, worse than ever
Second guide-Everything g blamed high.
Hear you've bought some timber land
somewhere.
First guide-Heigh?
Second guide Hear you've bought some
land.
First guide (pointng) See that hatiron
on the mounting?
First guide say that's it. Much ges-
Second guide-Family wellp
| First guide-Heigh2
Second guide Family we'll?
First guide-Yes, Wifes got the neural
nv pretty bad and Pas rheumatiz keeps
himin bed quite some. Your wifes looking
| we'll.
| Second guide--Heigh?
First guide-say your wife's looking
Second guide-,she will when her new
teeth n1sf comes; s,JsHsisS; Lost COW this summer
Second guide Lost q COW, lsay. Every
thing comes high this year. Guiding 3
ben good, though.
First guide de-Heigh?
Second guide-Say guiding's ben good.
First guide-Ben bit too good some
times. Them Boston mounting people
like to have killed me.
First guide. with a chuckle-Heigh?
Second guide-Them blamed Indian Club
climbers was thick as flies that day on the
upper pond. Had every guide, boy and
| heipe in the place out halilin hem. There
was no Height this time, but a silence
rich with thought
First guide-~l was down to the Forks
that week. Guess missed it.
Second guide -Heigh?
:, First guide-Guess l missed il,
Second guide Jim! Had your luck
with You that time. They both laugh
| First guidc--I presume likely.
! second Suide-1he ladies' all wore gloves
and carried pa 'sols. One OF them KEEP
saying 10 me: Say, oapting; you're run
ming onto one, Of them rocks. You don't
both laugh silenIly.l
Filst guide Some on EN- olim Marcy,
, hcerd.
Second guide Hcigh?
! First guide --Heerd they elm Marcy.
Howe they get on?
| them.
! There was chuckling and a shuffling
! of feet, then long silence broken at inter-
walls by the drivers = confidential remarks
| 10 his horses. In q few minutes the party
reached the village and the store. The
the exterior Of which was being treated
with a coat Of violet colored paint by the
owner himself the other to tramp leisurefy
| up a side road. There we're no good-byes,
and the last remarks were;
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