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... West Branch , appear- ing in connection with Schoodic ; but ' Schoodic ' only means ' burnt land ' and is found in a number of widely separated places in Maine , and this may refer to Schoodic Stream which flows into the West Branch a ...
... West Branch , appear- ing in connection with Schoodic ; but ' Schoodic ' only means ' burnt land ' and is found in a number of widely separated places in Maine , and this may refer to Schoodic Stream which flows into the West Branch a ...
Page 185
... West Branch below Shad Pond . Mr. Rodney Q. Lancaster , of Howland , Maine , eighty - four years old , writes ( 1926 ) : ' I drove the West Branch sixty - one years ago . There was a rock called Jerry Rock below Pond Falls and above ...
... West Branch below Shad Pond . Mr. Rodney Q. Lancaster , of Howland , Maine , eighty - four years old , writes ( 1926 ) : ' I drove the West Branch sixty - one years ago . There was a rock called Jerry Rock below Pond Falls and above ...
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... West Branchers . ' When a man had graduated from the East Branch to become head boatman on the West Branch , he seldom went back again , and , if not working as a guide in fall and summer , he might never see that branch again ...
... West Branchers . ' When a man had graduated from the East Branch to become head boatman on the West Branch , he seldom went back again , and , if not working as a guide in fall and summer , he might never see that branch again ...
Contents
EVERY MAN HIS OWN POET | 3 |
SONGS OF THE WOODS | 15 |
THE PROSE RHYTHM | 72 |
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