The independent-reporter., 1922-11-09
\, n, Adventures I'm the Moose
head Lake Country
IN. 1 nwis S. RohinSonl

o,fober | passed quite a Time
somerset Hospital on Elm st.
.rbegan, being treated for Il
.le circumstances were such
enuld walk out every day
= recommended to do so. On
,hese walks | was accosted by
writer from the Independent
:, and on his learning that ]
,pt sometime in the woods up
Noosehcad Lake he urged me
him story about it and |
consented to do so. | won't
that the way it appears here
,bp way told it because they
[oa In fix it up for me before
- but they were not to alter
cts but TO correct some of my
1t will pass | guess for my
sory
as horn in Bowdusnham and
hsre for about twenty-five years.
This time | made one sea voy-
Smith America, and | also be-
familiar with row boats in
nsed to navigate more or less
Nerrymeeting Bay. | never
rapoe until / came up this way.
Or but that will appear later on
story.
81 came to Somerset County in
Since that | have worked on
around here a good deal, among
at the Fred Loomis and Ed
nlaee and for Charles White
used to hear a whole lot
hunting and fishing and | took
on | would like to see the big
section, so one time just about
| started for Moosehead Lake.
meneed roughing it from the
Itrsi, walking most OF the way
|enville, sometimes sleeping out
Eht Somebody had given me
berman's or sportsman's s. map of
Errion. Later on ! bought a
|s. but at first | didn't carry
even fishing line. | started
sm Greenyille up the east shore
like and slept out the first
in the old logging camp at Bea-
ove. Kept on the next day,
plched the Lilly Bay, about nine
from Greenville. Hoped to
job al numbering here or hay
+ bns nobody wanted any men.
heard of Kineo and thought per-
would 20 there, hut decided
to Roach River. This | did
|ould not find a job and finally
|o the Grant farm. There were
men. working in the haying field
! hey pointed out the boss to me.
|ayc me IA job and | worked for
ben days. There were three
| IN the crew. After all these
cant remember the names of
tne of them. We cut about one
tCd tons of hay, mostly machine
|ng. Here at the Grant farm |
| my first fishing and found it
sport. We could go down to a
of meadow on Bear Brook and
trout Weighing two or three
s as fast AS we could pull them
There were any amount OF deer
all The time, so plentiful that
lrod down the grass and ate up
|od deal of the grain and other
!, Sometimes we would go down
)e oat field and the deer would
US coming and all raise their
! about the same time. You
see horns and ears striking up
|er II.
Per HE having job was done !
|ed 10 70 through to Chesuncook,
| twenty miles. took a blank
|Ith mr. and slept out two nights
|he way While at the Grant
! had seen n man shoot fox
a revolver. 1t looked easy and
Pdp up my mind that when | got
hesuncnok ! would buy some kind
hrearm. You see / didn't know
hlng al all about the country. Had
\ chcsnncook talked about so
that | thought 1t was quite
II seemed to me was just
through he woods and would
ont at the settlements on the
side Of which Chesuncook was
imagined should find Ches-
Ok 10 be quite place with stores,
rhes, schools, etc. Had my mind
Dade MP io go into the first hard
store and buy something for a
! was quite astonished when
FRed there TO find that there was
much 10 it except a hotel with
agn 'Ghesuncook House" ON it.
was another building used for
ach. schoolhouse. and public
lngs Store. and one or two res
es But the business street
hardware stores, etc, that ex-
10 lind didn't exist. The prop
OF the Chesuncook House was
p NaShblrn. He is now | un-
anu resident OF Canaan.
WI with him over night. NV
erilg spirit called me to go still
el INTO the woods and | hired d
d the Chesuncook House to set
''oSS The Lake, about two miles.
mdh could see that / didn't know
"g ABOUT a canoe and recon-
eu mat | sit down in the bottom, |
'ola him | wanted to sit upon
""dlt where / could see some
IL was a nice morning and
aa no trouble. We landed at
y several small farms. in
! 'he way to Chamberlain Lake |
vas % directed through an old tote
'oout twenty miles. / arrived |
shofe OF the Lake on Sunday |
'Voh' There was no settlement
'ut was one on the opposite |
.Iiad been told that IL | built a
he the people over across
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