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146 sailor hats, trimmed to the brim with trees and set flat on the glassy water, and yet other islands that rise in graceful mounds and are banked with white pebbles, or edged with a valance of pure sand.

This Lake of the Fairies, its three hundred islands and the acres fronting it were until recent years the resort of Micmac families. Their chief lived on Big Meuse Island and fables of their tribe invest stream and cove and the huge grey rocks that near certain shores rise uncannily out of the water. When the Indians wandered away from Kejimikujik, the Provincial Government offered their lands for lease. The Rod and Gun Club, organised in 1909 by sportsmen from Annapolis and elsewhere in Nova Scotia and the United States, took a lease for ninety-nine years of 1500 acres of forest land and a number of islands, on a few of which retreats have already been built by members. There are other cottages on a high bank near the landing. Beyond a grove of birches, a fair grouping of slim white trunks patched grey like a rattle-snake's skin and astir with quivering leaves, is the knoll where Jim Charles used to farm on a point that projects into the lake. Jim Charles was an Indian of quarrelsome habits who slew a rival, and in escaping from his pursuers stumbled upon a deposit of rich gold