Identifier: throughwildsreco00farrrich (find matches)
Title: Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Farrar, Charles Alden John, d. 1893
Subjects: New Hampshire -- Description and travel Maine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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SPECKLED MOUNTAIN, GRAFTON NOTCH, MAINE. in the foreground of his own sketch. He was much pleased withthis effort, and showed it to his friends, who acknowledged it wasvery pretty. About six oclock they reached Bethel Hill, as the principal villagewas called, and were driven to the hotel where they stopped overnight. They found Bethel a very pretty place, and its hotel a good THROUGH THE WILDS. 413 one. As they had once more reached the pale of civiHzation, afterbeing shown to their rooms, they discarded the clothing they hadbeen wearing in the woods, and which from constant use was prettywell worn out, and put on their home clothes, and they appeared atsupper looking a little different from what they did when enteringthe hotel.
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SCREW AUGER FALLS. After supper they inquired the way to a barbers, for their hairhad grown very long in the woods, and needed cutting badly; andafter going through a course of sprouts, as Ned expressed it, atthe hands of the barber, they came out feeling like new men. Whilehaving their hair cut, they were much amused by listening to thestories of the barber, who was a very loquacious individual. 414 THROUGH THE WILDS. According to his version he had camped all through the wildernessabout the lakes, and had shot more deer, moose, and caribou thanone man often sees in a lifetime. What did you think of the barber, George ? asked the Parson,as the boys left the shop, still laughing at some of the barbers twisters. I think he would make a capital mate for the pilot of thatsteamer on which we made the trip in Portland harbor. You are just right, put in Ned,and all the boys roared as theythought of the fog story.

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