144 THE BEAVER RIVEK WATKKS. 



By this time we were all ready for tin- noon day tramp 

 over the carry. At Ihc dam, in the swift water, then- was 

 very lively sport with the My, amon^ the small trout. The 

 laru'e ones had retired from the rapids, and the small ones 

 had taken their places, as is likely to occur near the end of 

 the lime for fishing in swift water. 



A short row ( about two miles) up the river brouirht us 

 to Smith's Lake as pretty a sheet of \\ater, with it- seven 

 wooded islands and charininu\ mountain -.n'irl >hoivs, as one 

 is likely to see in the Adirondack region, much like, 

 indeed, but larger than Blue Mountain Lake, which is con 

 fessedly of -nrpa inir lieaulv. 



\Ve took possession, by the sportsman's riuht. of the 

 "Syracuse ('amp," which it.- proprietors were to occupy 

 later in the season. 



The Open Sleeping camp was hardly lenantable. and we 

 were ul id to avail ourselves of a trapper'.- winter -hut of 



I ba-k. of rrtiivly no;idcM-!-ipt a vHtertural < ; 

 but which contained a pile of stones for a lire place, and a 

 bed of marsh hay. We built a rousing tire, and a contla 

 ^ration seemed imminent as the llames and smoke and 

 sparks (lew up the sheets of spruce bark that formed the 

 side of the hut by the fire. But a (rapper had, all alone, 

 braved the rigors of the winter there, and doubtless had 

 piled on the wood as freely in January as we needed to in 

 .May. At all events, the " lire risk " proved to be a -.>od 

 one. and despite our fears AVC learned to be comfortable on 

 that score. A heavy rain that niirht searched out sundry 

 defects in the roof, which wciv cured with fresh sheets of 

 bark, the next dav. 



