The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-08
A WISE vAcATIoNIsT.
And the Experiences That Taught HIM
Where Not 10 Go.

"WeD. getting ready to go on your Na'a.
~, asked the friend, Of the tall, heavy
chirned man in the railway ticket ONCE
oSnnnose yon'll be snealang of 70 Canada
or some place and going lsll,ns pet ol "
now and the next hot spell lou iI4M
'aSton III" exclaimed the heaYy-ehiilileu
man II won't allow any person to thlnk
IL ,oing 10 bury myself oil IN some
u,ilderness or inland sea and try 70 Ad my
eli INTO thinking like being away from
civilization. | was in tins ticket ounce IN
ouirinr about the time the tram would ar
1--WE that I'm expecting some relatives on,
md Cor no other reason. Certainly nothlng
,ras further from my notion than buying a
ticket for anv Of these isolated spots that
N many pcople nowadays select Tor Vaca-
tion purposes. ! bit on that proposition
once and / have been getting great JOY
ever since then out Of not dong so.
"A couple OF friends Of mine came along
summer before last and talked me into 60
ing up into Georgian Bay, 20 do some iish-
ing. as they explained, ! mad never dehe
much fishing except along the bank OF a
small river when / was a kid, and ! re-
called fishing as a pretty turtle sort Of pas
time but they were enthusiastic and al
lowed myself to be drawn INTO the launt
without even stopping to ask questions. !
knew in a vague way what part q the map
Georgian BAY was in. or on, and didn
pause to manure what sort OF a hotel we d
put up at or TO butt in on the arrange
.ments | Just went along, trusting every
thing TO them. Ii was almost pathetic, the
childhke trust placed IN those two friends
Of mine. now as | look back on 1t. ] simply
packed up my little kit and started of, |
knew not where For that matter, ! don't
know vet, All | know is that we went as
far into the Georgian Bay region as we
could 90 by train, and then we took
steamer until the steamer got discouraged
and wouldn't 20 any farther. After that
we navigated about hundred miles or So
it seemed TO me-in a small gasoline launch.
/ was in hopes that we'd put about as
much space between US and civilization
then as we were going 10, but We added on
a final lap OF our Journey in a Towboat
u had supposed all along that We would
be at a summer hotel, and had brought
with me a pair OF white flannel trousers and
some other things that would look well on
a hotel veranda, but ! was obliged to leave
all those things behind. We are to spend
our time in a tent. III tell you how YOU
can ascertain Just where We we're Take a
map OF the Georgian Bay region, find the
most northern island large enough TO be
MAJ htu On lNt udIi, anu litn make a DOT
representing big rock out in the bay 80
miles or so north Of that
You camped on an island?" asked the
friend.
I'VE camped on a rock" corrected the
heavy.chinned man "A rock with three
or four pine trees on it There we were
miles and miles from the nearest drug
store, theatre, restaurant or news stand.
We'd 60 ont and fish in the daylight hours.
that Is when II wasn't raining, and at
night we'd sit around and listen to the
mouInfu lay OF the whip-poor,wils and the
lap. lap OF the water against the shore OF
the rock we were on. / felt so folorn the
hrst night that forgot to wind my watch,
and for several days / didn't even know
what tune 1t Nas-to say nothing of hav.
ing only rough notion Of the day Of the
week. II ! could have known the time OF
day ] might have felt better
After about 10 days of this Robinson
Crusoeith sort Of a time, my two com
panions decided they'd had about enough
and they consented to turn back toward
If they'd hung on there an.
other day, I'd have been a wild. ravinp
maniac when got back to Cleveland, bark.
ing and swapping at policemen and trying