With a Tenderfoot 



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his feet wet and upsetting himself and his 

 lunch from the rocks where he had perched 

 himself. 



The spirit was growing in him, however, 

 and from having hooked that boulder he had 

 suddenly developed into an enthusiastic fisher- 

 man. Lunch was hardly over when he had 

 moved away by himself with a new line, " to 

 try his luck again," as he said. We had for- 

 gotten him, in the arduous duties of breaking 

 up our temporary camp, when we were at- 

 tracted by his wild demeanor, as he made des- 

 perate efforts to recover his steel fishing rod 

 from the bottom. He was floundering in his 

 clothes in the lake; and finally, after diving 

 several times from view, he emerged with the 

 rod above the surface, the water dripping in 

 streams from his clothing. One of the In- 

 dians then went to his relief and set him 

 securely on the rocks. 



We later left in the canoe to look at the 

 other traps, and the whole party fished, with 

 pieces of raw fish for bait, and we caught five 

 or six pike and pickerel. Here an unbecom- 

 ing incident happened, due doubtless to smok- 



