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Title: Camp-fire musings : life and good times in the woods
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gray, William Cunningham, 1830-1901
Subjects: Natural history Outdoor life
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ed as far out over thewater as their anchorage would permit. I would makea long and tough tramp, with my boat on my shoul-ders, for the sake of floating on that lake in the bloomof autumn. Nobody who has not had that delightfulexperience can form any conception of the colors. 2l8 The lake, sheltered from the wind by the forests, is assmooth as a pier-glass, the color sky-blue, with thereflection of the clouds, if there be any. Look downin it, and you seem to be in mid-space, the clouds andsky beneath as well as above you. The colors on theshore are not glaring. There is nO gaudiness aboutthem, but an infinite delicacy as #ell as variety intheir blending. You have all the greens, all the yel-lows, all the reds from pink down to black, and,by the blending of these, all other colors, in shimmer-ing veils of lace-work, a ribbon 150 feet broad, theshore-line almost invisible in its middle, and the sideof the ribbon in the water not distinguishable, excepiby reasoning, from that in the air.
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MUSING XXI FIRE ! The situation was this. There was such a conflu-ence of friends whom we had invited to share the hos-pitalities of our cabins that every invention for som-nolent luxury was occupied. The library, above andbelow, had been utilized for sleeping purposes. Thelofts in the dormitory, ditto. An extra tent had beenset and provided with cots. And yet there was leftthe hay-mow, over at the barn, which was good for adozen more, had they made their appearance. Itmight be asked how people of our limited means couldafford such wide armed hospitality. Easily. As forfish and venison and partridges and blueberries, therewere no end to them. And for the store-groceries wehad more than we could eat ourselves, two or threetimes over. So it was a positive act of benevolencefor our friends who had good appetites to come andhelp us devour them, and thus save them from beingwasted. We had tarried late at the camp-fire. It was thewistful and quiet hour of eight oclock in the morningwhen I r

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