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The Tent Dwellers

Albert Bigelow Paine

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I was no longer cold, or hot, or afraid of malaria, or mosquitoes, or anything of the sort. Duties more or less important at home were forgotten. I was concerned only with those two trout that had fastened to my flies, the Silver Doctor and the Parmcheenie Belle, out there in the black, tossing[Pg 43] water, and with the proper method of keeping my line taut, but not too taut, easy, but not too easy, with working the prize little by little within reach of the net. Eddie, suddenly seeing my employment, called across congratulations and encouragement. Then, immediately, he was busy too, with a fish of his own, and the sport, the great, splendid sport of the far north woods, had really begun.

I brought my catch near the boatside at last, but it is no trifling matter to get two trout into a net when they are strung out on a six-foot leader, with the big trout on the top fly. Reason dictates that the end trout should go in first and at least twice I had him in, when t. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Witty and wonderful.

"The wilderness will welcome you, and teach you, and take you to it's heart. And you will find your own soul there; and the discovery will be worth while." The book ends on that statement and sums up the experience nicely. It almost makes me want to go camping -- especially if e

Thoroughly Enjoyable

Written in a humorous, fun loving style that you just don't see anymore. Loved it from first page to last. The tale of fishing and exploring in the days gone by.

Mark Twain travels to Nova Scotia and does a lot of fishing.

4 1/2 stars. In 1908, two American gentlemen and two local guides spent several weeks fly fishing in Nova Scotia. Those of us who have lived in Nova Scotia will recognize the descriptions of Keji, with its countless rocks and trees and water - not to mention blackflies and mosquitoes. Albert Paine w

The author was Mark Twain's biographer, and they share the same wit. Playing the doofus camper/fisherman in this 1908 travel journal of a fishing trip in Kejimkujik and the Tobeatic wilderness of Nova Scotia, Paine shows he is no doofus with words.
I found it a wonderful read while I was canoe-campi

A surprisingly charming book that recounts a journey into the "wilds" of Nova Scotia in years gone by. Of interest to those who would like a window into the world of fishing in the late 19th century, or who would like to understand one aspect of the Nova Scotia economy in those years. Exceedingly we

Wow. This book claimed it was a book about fishing in Nova Scotia in 1908. S
And Lord knows that there is a lot of trout fishing here, but there is also a lot of killing everything else they managed to see in the bush! Not a book that I would have chosen to be among N.S. 150 books of influence.

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