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Title: Camp life in the wilderness
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Farrar, Charles Alden John, d. 1893. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Camping
Publisher: Boston, A. Williams and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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we could, and then plunged into the water, wadingalong in single file, but the water did not rise aboveour shoulders. We could feel the path perfectly easy with ourfeet; and although the water was rather cold, it waseasier getting along than scrambling through thewoods and underbrush. I had on a long linenduster, and it floated out about a yard behind meon the water. We were a comical-looking set of ducks, as wewent along wading and splashing, laughing andjoking over the situation, the dog swimming in therear. After two or three hundred yards of this wading,the path ran over higher ground, and became freeof water once more. By thunder! exclaimed the Artist, as weemerged from the water, dripping like so manydrowned rats, u I would have been willing to havegiven ten dollars to have had the Governor with us. 11 It would have been sport, said the Professor;and he laughed at the thought of it. When we reached the boat we had to take off ourclothes and wring the water out of them, and then
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Q P3W P■ M P3 F* o * W HO H HO g MIDDLE DAM CAMP. 185 picking up our things that had been wet earlier inthe day, but were quite dry now, we packed themin the boat, and without further trouble pulled downto the Middle Dam, and unloaded our boat. Goingon shore we found that the Guide had pitched ourtent a few rods south of the Anglers Retreat, andhad supper all ready for us. Mozart and the Governor had been to supper, andhad gone out to the dam to try their luck with thetrout; we accordingly sat down to the table, and asusual made a hole in the Guides good things. After tea we strolled out to the dam, and foundour frfends fishing, also some gentlemen from NewYork who were stopping at the camp. They had good luck there, and took a large num-ber of nice fish weighing from one to four poundseach. As we were all quite fatigued and had beenthoroughly soaked, that is, all who had come downthe lake in the Rolling Moses, we took lodgings forthe night at the .camp, the Guide also

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