. In pine-tree jungles; a hand-book for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . dimly-blazed paths in toothers; but the realheart of the wil-derness had neverbeen reached ex-cept by the Indianaborigine or someventuresome lum-berman. To-day,the man or womanwho is bound forthe great Mainewilderness ridesinto the very centreof the jungle in asluxurious railroadcoaches or Pullmancars as ever a loco-motive drew, on as solidly-built and finely-equipped a road as canbe found anywhere in all the world. You must have heard of thisrailroad — the Bangor & Aroostook — the key which has unlockedth
. In pine-tree jungles; a hand-book for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . dimly-blazed paths in toothers; but the realheart of the wil-derness had neverbeen reached ex-cept by the Indianaborigine or someventuresome lum-berman. To-day,the man or womanwho is bound forthe great Mainewilderness ridesinto the very centreof the jungle in asluxurious railroadcoaches or Pullmancars as ever a loco-motive drew, on as solidly-built and finely-equipped a road as canbe found anywhere in all the world. You must have heard of thisrailroad — the Bangor & Aroostook — the key which has unlockedthe gateway to this mammoth ten million acres of game park andpleasure ground. Without it, Maines most valuable timbered territorywould still be in large part unavailable ; its marvellous fish and gameresources could be but scarcely drawn upon; and without a full knowl-edge and appreciation of these resources, this little handbook couldnever have been compiled. Let us, then, rejoice together! — and thank God that the bounties ofthe pine-tree jungles are so manifold and A Kt{<f-lnig, Winding \VaterdHiy. ^ Now Lets Fish! WHere Big FisH are Plenty. ^^NGLING — the luring and landing of fish — is indeed a finey^i^^ art. The trick isnt so much the dropping of a hook into^ ^^ the stream ; it is in getting the hook out again with a hand-some fighting fish held firmly on its barb. A western writer recentlytucked the whole logic of fishing into a nutshell when he said : • Firstfind your fish, offer him the food he is fond of, convince him he is hun-gry, prevail upon him to satisfy his hunger, and then have a trial of skillto determine who is the better of the two. Next, the question naturally arises, Where are the big fish plenty? The answer is as simple as it is easy : In the Bangor & Aroostookterritory. No one can dispute this assertion; few, indeed, are the
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