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Excerpt from The Modern Babes in the Wood: Or Summerings in the Wilderness; To Which Is Added a Reliable and Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks
Myers, - the philosopher, the artist. Short in stature, straight as an arrow, with an eye like a hawk's. No matter how complex the question, how many-sided the problem, or how apparently insurmountable the obstacles to be overcome; through a course of cold-blooded reasoning or sudden outburst of overwhelming argument, whether sensible or not it was sometimes difficult to determine, he would dispose of them, one and all, to his own satisfaction at least. It takes all manner of personages to form a world's population; and Myers was one of the necessary requisites in the woods.
Wash was our anchor, our rock of faith. Whether at this moment one of us would have been left to tell this tale, is somewhat doubtful, had it not been for the good common sense, the sound judgment of Wash. Anything, from catching a mosquito napping, to pitching a tent or doing a long carry, he could seemingly accomplish with about one-half the labor spent by any other man. His many feats of endurance, hard labor and digestion, will long be remembered. A dead shot he was, and the one into whose hands fell nearly every deer killed by us.
Burnie, - a wag in the fullest sense. If he spoke, sallies of wit, pointed sarcasm, and the richest jokes, ?owed from his lips like a streamlet down the hill-side. A literary Character of not much merit musician of doubtful ability; artist of acknowledged deficiencies; sculptor of little note; printer of small pretensions; his versatility was equaled by nothing but his universal incapacity. A chap who could turn his hand to anything, and be eminent in nothing. But do without him and his lively conversation, and general ability to please, we could not.
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