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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Did it ever occur to you, my dear friend, that Margaret needed the woods?" His eyes were searching hers now as if he wanted to read her inmost thought. "Needed them in what way?" "I mean er wouldn't it be better for her if she went to them? A winter at Saranac or better still, a longer summer at the camp if there is to be a camp.
There wasn't a sign of him after he crossed Alder Brook. He knew those woods like a partridge. When he got through telling how he got the square meal at Lower Saranac, Ed said to him: "'Bob, you're welcome to what I've got, and I told him, 'What I've got is yours, and you know it. "He tried to say a little something, but he choked up, then he said: 'Boys, I'm sick of bein' hounded.
It was a fortnight before he 'left the house, but he learned a little piece of wisdom by that cuff that sent him down the bank, and got a little insight into the nater of an angry bear." We had as yet had no use for our dogs since we left the Saranac. They had travelled quietly with us as we moved from place to place, or stayed inactive at the tents while we remained stationary.
You wouldn't in them days row across any of these lakes in the trollin' season without hitchin' on to an eight, or ten, and now and then to a twenty-pounder. "Wal, I was on the Upper Saranac, up towards the head of the lake, ten or twelve miles from here, trollin' with an old-fashioned line, about as big as a pipe stem, a hundred and fifty feet long, and a hook to match.
I was walking one night in the verandah of a small house in which I lived, outside the hamlet of Saranac. It was winter; the night was very dark; the air extraordinary clear and cold, and sweet with the purity of forests.
There they buried the body of Adota and held their solemn festivals until the white men drove them out of the country. In the middle of the last century a large body of Saranac Indians occupied the forests of the Upper Saranac through which ran the Indian carrying-place, called by them the Eagle Nest Trail.
I built a camp on a secluded bay, which still bears my name amongst the men of the section, and there I worked in a solitude sometimes complete and sometimes shared by my guide, who passed his time between the camp and the settlement at Saranac, whence I drew all my supplies beyond those which the lake and the forest furnished us with.
Let those who will, chant in heroic verse the renown of Amazon and Mississippi and Niagara, but my prose shall flow or straggle along at such a pace as the prosaic muse may grant me to attain in praise of Beaverkill and Neversink and Swiftwater, of Saranac and Raquette and Ausable, of Allegash and Aroostook and Moose River.
Moreover, we can get lost if we want to no one can get lost in a river. We can rush in where pilots fear to tread, strike sunken rocks, toss among dismal eddies, or plunge into whirlpools. We can rake overhanging boughs with our yard-arms if we want to but we don't want to. In 1875 the United States steamer Saranac went down in Seymour Narrows, and her fate was sudden death.
An iron spike was driven into every touch hole; the guns were made harmless as logs and quickly wheeling, to avoid the return attack, these bold Yankee boys leaped from the muzzled redoubt and reached their own camp without losing one of their number. The Bloody Saranac Sir George Prevost had had no intention of taking Plattsburg, till Plattsburg's navy was captured.
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