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Title: A word from the Maine woods
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: (Thoreau, Henry David), 1817-1862 Bangor and Aroostook railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Piscataquis County (Me.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: (Bangor, Me., Bangor & Aroostook railroad co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eat the experiment. It had too medicinal a taste formy palate. There was the skeleton of a moose here, whose bones someIndian hunters had picked on this very spot. In the night 1 dreamed of trout-fishing ; and, when at length I awoke, itseemed a fable that this painted fish swam there so near my couch, and rose toour hooks the last evening, and I doubted if I had not dreamed it all. So Iarose before dawn to test its truth, while my companions were still sleeping.There stood Ktaadn with distinct and cloudless outline in the moonlight; andthe rippling of the rapids was the only sound to break the stillness. Standingon the shore, I once more cast my line into the stream, and found the dreamto be real and the fable true. The speckled trout and silver> roach, like fly-ing-fish, sped swiftly through the moonlight air, describing bright arcs on thedark side of Ktaadn, until moonlight, now fading into daylight, brought satietyto my mind, and (he minds of my companions, who had joined me. H
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By six oclock, havins^ mounted our packs and a good blanketful of trout,ready dressed, and swung up such baggage and provision as we wished toleave behind upon the tops of saplings, to be out of the reach of bears, westarted for the sutimit of the mountain, distant, as Uncle George said the boat-men called it, about four miles, but as I judged, and as it proved, nearer four-teen. He had never been any nearer the mountain than this, and there wasnot the slightest trace of man to guide us farther in this direction. At first, push-ing a few rods up the Aboljacknagesic, or open-land stream, we fastened ourbatteau to a tree, and traveled up the north side, through burnt lands, nowpartially overgrown with young aspens and other shrubbery; but soon, re-crossing this stream, where it was about fifty or sixty feet wide, upon a jam oflogs and rocks, and you could cross it by this means almost anywhere,— westruck at once for the highest peak, over a mile or more of comparatively openland, stil

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