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cut pieces of wood. A well-beaten path led from 

 their timber reserve to the edge of the water, and 

 they evidently floated the timber to their building 

 some twenty rods away. The discovery of this 

 colony called out numerous stories from the forest 

 ranger of his experiences with the beaver, in the 

 recounting of which he referred to the " outlaw " 

 beaver which lives alone and in a hole in the bank 

 of some stream or lake. The Indian theory is that 

 this exile has been driven out by the members of 

 his family on account of his bad disposition or for 

 some crime committed against the society of which 

 he is a member. We must confess to a measure of 

 skepticism as to the absolute trustworthiness of this 

 bit of natural history, and only the testimony of 

 a well-known naturalist established it in our minds 

 as an indubitable fact. 



The best August fishing in this section is to be 

 found either in the streams or just where they 

 empty into the lakes. Here the sprightly, always- 

 up-and-doing brook trout furnish real sport. In 

 the Chippeway River, outlet of Trout Lake, we 

 made good catches, and where a spring brook 

 empties into the lake, sport that met our highest 

 desires was found. One spot on the river made an 

 indelible impression. It was where the stream, 

 rushing against a wall of rock, was sharply de- 

 flected, forming a deep and shaded pool. The 

 timber grew so densely all about that it was 

 seemingly impossible to fish this pool from the 



