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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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the morrow, as three more of thegentlemen intended leaving in the morning.. # 216 CAMP LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. CHAPTER XXII. MORE DEPARTURES.— ROXBURY POND.— CAUGHT INTHE RAIN. — LAST DAY AT ANDOVER. — FAREWELL.—GENERAL INFORMATION. — HINTS TO EXCURSIONISTS.AU REVOIR. ON Monday morning, Mozart, Sportsman, and theArtist ate their last meal at the Andover House,and after breakfast said their farewells to the rem-nant of the party, and then climbed to the top ofthe stage, giving us a parting salute as the vehiclerolled away. After they had gone, we concluded to make an ex-cursion to Roxbury Pond, a beautiful sheet of water,about a mile and a half long, by a mile or so wide.The pond, about four miles distant from the hotel,is noted for its pickerel, and we took our tackle withus, in hopes that we might bring back a few fish. The drive was very pleasant, and we enjoyed itexceedingly, our conveyance as usual being a buck-board, which for comfortable, jolly riding cannot bebeat.
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218 CAMP LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. On our way to the pond we stopped at the ruinsof an old mill, which spanned a stream, at the topof a hill, from which you could obtain a charmingview of the village of Andover. Around the site of this old mill, raspberries grewin reckless profusion, some of them as large asrobbins eggs, and we picked and ate until we werefairly cloyed with the delicious fruit. We regrettedthat we had not taken a few dishes along with us,for if we had, we might have carried back severalquarts. But we solaced ourselves for our negli-gence by planning a berrying excursion for thenext day. Before reaching the pond, the sky began to cloudup, and Thomas prophesied that it would shortlyrain. And he was not far out of the wav. for justafter we reached the pond, and one of our num-ber had thrown for the first pickerel, it began tosprinkle. At first the drops fell gently, as if they did notmean to wet us any more than possible, but theysoon increased in speed and size, and came

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