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    Lost Pond
    Lost Pond
    Lost Pond
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    Lost Pond

    By Henry Abbott

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Lost Pond - Henry Abbott

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lost Pond, by Henry Abbott

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Lost Pond

      Author: Henry Abbott

      Release Date: December 16, 2010 [EBook #34669]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOST POND ***

      Produced by Linda M. Everhart, Blairstown, Missouri

      LOST POND

      By

      HENRY ABBOTT

      NEW YORK

      1915

      Copyright 1915

      by

      HENRY ABBOTT

      LOST POND

      Lost Pond was a tradition, a myth. It had never been seen by any living person. Two dead men, it was alleged, had visited it on several occasions while they were yet living.

      Wonderful tales were told about that pond for which many persons had hunted, but which no one of the present generation had ever been able to find.

      Every guide in Long Lake township talked about Lost Pond and repeated the legends, which through the passing years had probably lost none of their original enticements. Many of these guides had even got the stories at first hand from Captain Parker and Mitchel Sabattis.

      Captain Parker, a famous hunter and trapper, had died about ten years ago at the good old age of ninety-four years. Mitchel Sabattis, an Indian, who had married a white woman and had brought up a family of husky half-breeds, was the first settler in the Long Lake country. He was a highly respected citizen, and a mountain and a United States post office had been named after him. Sabattis lived to be a very old man. Many believed him to be past a hundred years when he died, but the family Bible was not available to prove the date of his birth.

      Now, all of the natives knew that Lost Pond was somewhere on Seward Mountain, and they apparently believed that the best fishing place in the State was right in that pond. "By Mighty! that pond was just alive with speckled trout — big ones. You could catch all you wanted

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