CHAPTER XXI. 



The next morning came hot and bright. yVe visited 

 Soutli Inlet where, under favoring circumstances, there is 

 notable tishing. l)ut we took no tish. While we lounged 

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

 w^atched the play of the red-tins w-itli our trailing flies, two 

 parties arrived, on their way to camp at 8hedd Lake. One 

 sprucely dressed young fellow had loaded down his boat and 

 guide with camp-kit, Ijrand neW' rifle, rods, paraphernalia, 

 impedimenta, luggage and baggage enough for a dozen men. 

 He w^as a dry-goods clerk from New^ York, — and this w^as 

 his first experience in camping. His guide, fraternizing 

 with John, wdio helped him up the bank witli the mon- 

 strous pile of stuff, (piile prof anel}^ characterized "liisman" 



as a ' ' fool. " The other party w^ere old campers, and WT're 



quietly on their Avay across the carry, taking everything at 

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

 ventory of his own multitudinous "traps." We learned 

 afterw^ard 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 Chauncey 

 Uathorn's open boarding camp in the pleasant pine grove 



