

zenith city at ten o'clock in the morning. A cool wind Was 

 blowing over the great lake and we sat for'rd to enjoy its 

 freshness and mutually feel sorry for the fellers plugging 

 away back home. We got into camp by night, stretched our 

 tent, and had a good dinner cooked by our guide. Afterwards, 

 we built a strong fire and sat around to smoke. 



O! those were glorious hours! It was the first time I had 

 felt cool and contented and tired in a month. We let "Jim" 

 fill us up with wonderful stories of life in the Minnesota and 

 Wisconsin woods, and sat and talked till eleven o'clock. The 

 fire was burning low. The night birds and the night noises 

 were lulling us into a state of drowsiness. The little water- 

 falls in the Brule at our feet sang songs of adventure that was 

 to come and the night wind sighing through the pine trees 

 made us glad of the peacefulness. 



"Jim" broke the silence: 



"Bring any ile?" he asked. 



"I never drink," I replied firmly. 



"No! no!" he urged. "Ile for mosquitoes and No-seeums." 



I looked at "Pudge" blankly. I thought we had bought all 

 Duluth when we finished paying the bill for outfitting. But 

 ess we hadn't. "Pudge" didn't know anything about "ile" 

 mosquitoes and to buy any sort of a present for such a 

 t was something entirely beyond my usual manner of pro- 

 ure. 



"But," I began wondering, "what are these 'No-seeums' that 

 speaks about?" I had never heard of such reptiles or 

 animals, or whatever they were, before. So I turned to our 

 guide and remarked: 



"Jim, what kind of 'ile' do you usually bring mosquitoes, 

 and what is a No-seeum?" 



The Chippewa looked disgusted. I had tried to keep him 

 from discerning that I was not an old timer in the woods, that 

 I didn"t know all about nimrodding and Izaak Waltoning and 

 other outdoor hardships. But I was willing to concede igno- 

 rance of mosquito "ile" and of No-seeums. 



"Ile keep away 'sketers an' No-seeums," Jim replied. 



"But what's a 'No-seeum?'" 



"You find out 'morrow mornin'." 



