CHAPTER XXI. 



The next morning came hot and bright. We visited 

 South Inlet where, under favoring circumstances, there is 

 notable fishing, but we took no fish. While we lounged 

 in the shade, on the rocks at the foot of the rapids, and 

 watched the play of the red-fins with our trailing flies, two 

 parties arrived, on their way to camp at Shedd Lake. One 

 sprucely dressed young fellow had loaded down his boat and 

 guide with camp kit. brand-new rifle, rod.-, paraphernalia, 

 impedimenta, luggage and baggage enough for a dozen men. 

 Hi- w.-i- a dry good^ d.-rk from New York, and this was 

 his first experience in camping. Hi- guide, fraternizing 

 with John, who helped him up the bank with the mon- 

 strous pile of stun", quite prof anely characterized "his man" 



asa" fool." Theolhrr party were old campers, and were 



(|uietly on their way across the carry, taking everything at 

 a single trip, long before the Clerk had completed his in- 

 ventory <>f his <>wn multitudinous "traps." We learned 

 afterward that his guide traveled all the afternoon, back 

 and forth, and that even then the task of transporting "his 

 man's" baggage was not completed, and they slept at a 

 temporary shelter on the carry. 



On our way back to our tent, we called at Channccy 

 Hat horn's open boarding camp in the pleasant pine grove 



