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Title: In pine-tree jungles : a handbook for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company Clifford, Fred H
Subjects: Outdoor life -- Maine Maine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Bangor : Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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his expiring forest monarch were two others, in the lastthroes. All three looked as large as good-sized oxen to the men fromPresque Isle. Nobody hant never see hanyting lak this; come hend of theworl for sure, said Joe. All tree bulls. Cat.ch em sleepin witnose on the win. He laughed appreciatively over his cunning and skill, while the Judgeand the Major executed a rude dance. Their honor was vindicated. Joe was sent back after Pansy and the sled, for the scene was near atote road, and things were right for taking out the moose intact. Itwas late the next day when the last was strung up before Joe Lafittescabin. The Judge and the Major made merry, and spoke disparagement ofthose who had scoffed at them as hunters. Declaring that they spurnedthese detractors, they framed sarcastic speeches wherewith to shrivelthem on their return to Presque Isle. As Joe skinned the moose, and removed their heads and spreadingantlers, his only comment, often repeated, was : — Hit beat hall I ever see.
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8.S Jungle Voyages by Canoe. WONDERLAND for the vacationer, Paradise for the canoe-ist, Elysium for the kodaker, are found practically withoutlimitation in the vast, deep jungle-land threaded by thelabyrinthian waterways of northern Maine. The map has not yet beenmade which shows all these devious canoe roads through the tangledwilderness, but enough of the ways have been traversed to prove indis-putably that the finest canoe country in all America is in what is com-monly called B. & A. territory. No man or woman who has taken a canoe ride on any of Mainesrich-bowered streams can ever forget the exhilarating joy of it. Underthe slow, measured strokes of the guides paddle, the graceful craftskims swiftly over the water, making scarcely a ripple or a sound.Sometimes the woods on either side seem to feel the spell of silence,and not a leaf rustles ; naught but perchance the chat of a saucy fisher,or the ker-chi/g, kcr-chiig of a distant stake-driver, breaks upon thesolemn forest stil

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