Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — A Queer Craft. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Craft.

Hermit Cusack of Moosehead might have been, hanged as a sorcerer in the benighted days of old. He thinks nothing of erpfesing the Piscataquis Rivet standing on a thirty-foot binding pole. Recently as the steamer’from Kineo plougfroekdown through the? heavy sea xHrtCfteople Jjeard were astounded by a sight of a.man jn mid-lake standing breast high in the heaving waters, with which he was battling in seeming pursuit of a small dog that sat in frill view above the surface a few feet ahead of him. The steamer,.changing her cqtirse, slowed down to pick up John Cusack, who was making the fourth mile of a voyage with an old tree root as his craft, and His dog as passenger. He stood upon the larger end of the root, thereby lifting the other end above the water, and upon this upraised tip the dog found a safe, if not quite dry, footing. The sight of Uncle John and his dog making slqiilar trips is quite frequently reported.— Lewiston Journal.