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against logs and stones, or its roar as in little cascades it falls over 

 obstructions to its course, is all the company the dipper asks, and all 

 day long never resting, never wearying, it moves from place to place. 

 It walks under water as if on dry land, and seems almost as much at 

 home there as anywhere else ; it knows of but one way of getting behind 

 the waterfall, where perhaps it has built its nest, and that is to go 

 straight through it. Its song is described as " exquisitely sweet and 

 melodious," but although I have seen many of them I have never heard 

 one sing. 



We decided that we could follow the ci-eek no further, and after a 

 short rest began the ascent of the shoulder. As we left the low, dark 

 woods of the creek valley a mountain chipmunk (Tamias Asiaticus var. 

 borealis), the smallest of the squirrel family in America, ran chattering 

 across a ledge of rock above us. This tiny animal possesses to the full 

 the characteristic activity of its family and is seldom at rest ; it is to be 

 found everywhere in these mountains, and one soon grows to feel lonely 

 when none happen to be near enough to make their presence known by 

 their merry chatter. No more industrious animal is to be lound any- 

 where ; all through the last weeks of summer and the short autumnal 

 days, before the first heavy fall of snow drives him into winter quarters, 

 he is employed in gathering and storing away roots and seeds for use 

 during the winter. With his fore feet he fills the pouches with which 

 nature has provided him — one on either side of his mouth — and return- 

 ing to his snug little home beneath some stum]) or fallen tree, packs his 

 harvest away in his store-room, for not satisfied with making the 

 chamber he is to occupy warm and comfortable with moss and leaves he 

 stores his food in another apartment than that in which he is to doze 

 and dream away the long winter. 



After leaving the creek we forced our way through a dense growth 

 of small fir trees and underbrush until we were out of tha creek valley 

 and about 500 feet above the water. We were now between two 

 creeks and on a ridge that seemed to extend to the summit, and up this 

 we toiled for three hours. The whole mountain side had a few years 

 before this been burned over, and the second growth timber was as yet 

 very small ; the dense undergrowth effectually concealed the burnt logs 

 with which the ground was strewn, and which could seldom be seen 



