. In pine-tree jungles : a handbook for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . ed and tumbled farbelow. The night before, at camp, he had heard the guides talk aboutThe Gulf of Pleasant river. He wondered if this were the plodded down the road. It descended gradually until with a long,steep swing it led directly to the shore of the torrent. There was aford here, but it was forbidding. He looked out on the turbulent The Cable Car. 51 flood that tossed and foamed in the dim starHght against the bouldersand ledges. He concluded that he wouldnt wade. He realized nowthat his camp
. In pine-tree jungles : a handbook for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . ed and tumbled farbelow. The night before, at camp, he had heard the guides talk aboutThe Gulf of Pleasant river. He wondered if this were the plodded down the road. It descended gradually until with a long,steep swing it led directly to the shore of the torrent. There was aford here, but it was forbidding. He looked out on the turbulent The Cable Car. 51 flood that tossed and foamed in the dim starHght against the bouldersand ledges. He concluded that he wouldnt wade. He realized nowthat his camp was on the other side, for they had forded Pleasant riverin the morning, far above the Gulf. Hudnutt commenced to feel very lonely. It seemed to him that ifhe could only get on the other shore, he at least could have the satis-faction of knowing that the camp was more neighborly. As he trampedup and down the river edge, he spied something that gave his memorya brisk jog. Dimly he saw a swinging cable stretching against thepatch of sky. The guides had also been talking of Deans cable. Hudnutt Simply Clicng on—and Yelled. car. Dean had lived at Long pond, farther along the road, and hadbuilt this contrivance to serve in lieu of a ferry. Hudnutt clamberedup the staging that loomed near at hand. He cursed some more ashis pitchy hands gathered slivers. There at the edge of the platformswung the car. Hudnutt struck matches and speedily mastered thephilosophy of the thing : the passenger simply stood in the car andpulled on an endless rope running over pulleys. The car traveled onan iron wheel grooved to fit a wire cable. The novelty appealed to Hudnutt. He stepped aboard and com-menced to pull. The car traveled down the sag of wire so easily that ^2 A Rude A-svakening. he simply allowed the pull-rope to slide through his hands. But halfway across, and on the up grade, the proposition was a bit set his knees against the side of the rough litde pen and putout his m
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