So to get the canoe up to Lake Pleasant on our shoulders, and then back again would take over two weeks." Dick was unusually thoughtful as the boys strolled from Driggs' yard up to Main Street.

Lake Pleasant was a fine place to visit in summer.

He knew that, for he had been there on one occasion.
On one side of the lake were two hotels, each with roomy recreation grounds, with piers and plenty of boats.

On this same side there were four or five boarding houses for people of more moderate means.
Boating was the one great pastime at Lake Pleasant.

Indeed, a canoe club had been started there by young men of means, and the boathouse stood at the water's edge on the Hotel Pleasant grounds.
Then, too, there may have been another reason for Dick's desire to go to Lake Pleasant.