We landed opposite his door at about four in the afternoon, having come some forty miles this day. We stopped for an hour at his house. Mrs. P. wore a hat and had a silver brooch on her breast, but she was not introduced to us. The house was roomy and neat. A large new map of Oldtown and the Indian Island hung on the wall, and a clock opposite to it.
This was the last that I saw of Joe Polis. We took the last train, and reached Bangor that night.
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FOOTNOTES:
[5] Joe Aitteon was Thoreau’s guide on the second of his three excursions into the Maine Woods. He was an Indian whose home was on the same island where Polis lived.
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