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Saturday Oct. 15". 1881. Cloudy & cold. Slept cold towards morning. After breakfast got into the birches and went down to the dam to see if we could get some trout. The lake was quite still but the skies were grey & dark. There were some beautiful effects which I would have liked to paint if it had not been so cold. There is less autumn brilliancy of color than I have ever seen here. The sharp freezing nights having taken off the leaves before they colored. After we arrived at the dam it snowed a little. We built a fire, and I threw my fly but caught only two chubs. Came up to Norway Point and cooked our lunch. Began to rain and we started for camp the rain falling faster and faster. The men got soaking wet. Shortly after we got back and got a roaring fire built two men appeared on the shore with a birch- Charley Hale and Belet [[blank space]] a Frenchman, soaking wet having come from upper Togue expecting to camp here. We had to take them in but they were by no means attractive additions soaking and steaming before the fire. Got from Charlie directions for the route to the head of the St John by East or West branches. He has been there. Funny stories about Ben York and his account of the St John fire - the steeples standing up black and charred like pine trunks in a burnt forest.

Sunday 16. Wind blowing a gale from N.W. Staid in camp all day - Charlie and the Frenchman moved over into the woods into a little camp of their own- Cary and his companion Reynolds came to our camp and gave us a partridge they had shot - Wrote to Church, to Sara and to Kimball the P.M. at Medway to send letters to Frank Fowlers and dispatches here.      

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