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attention to them, but kept on searching for his 

 friend. Keeping in the background, they trailed 

 on behind, until, following Mrs. Weldon's foot- 

 prints, Bruno took them back to the camp. 



Mrs. Underwood and I spent two weeks near the 

 stream where the river-drivers were working. Each 

 day with my camera I walked along the banks, 

 taking pictures and watching the men at their ex- 

 citing work. Most of Gordon's crew were on the 

 drive, and they took great interest in what I was 

 doing. They seemed to consider it as a great honor 

 that Comrade had come back into the woods to 

 watch them. 



The life of a river-driver is hard : his days are 

 long, and the work is rough and dangerous. The 

 water is icy cold. The snow still lingers in the 

 woods, and the drive begins on the day when the 

 ice leaves the lakes. On our stream the men were 

 most accommodating :' they did everything they 

 could for me so that my pictures should be suc- 

 cessful. Where the stream was narrow, they felled 

 trees across to make bridges, so that Mrs. Under- 

 wood and I could pass from one bank to another. 

 All kinds of stunts were done for our benefit. 

 They had burling contests, in which two men 

 stood on a single log, each trying to roll the other 

 off. The man who fell had to swim. Wet clothes 

 were of no moment to those husky chaps. That 



