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such harmony that it seemed as though 

 a single brain were in charge of the 

 craft, though not a word was exchanged 

 throughout an anxious two hours. I 

 was amused at the dry compliments that 

 passed between two very wet men when 

 we made the end of the lake. Bow said 

 to Medee "It crossed my mind, once 

 or twice, as we came along that this was 

 perhaps not your first experience in a 

 canoe. " To which, Medee "It is an 

 odd thing, but rounding the big point, 

 the thought came to me that possibly 

 you had handled a paddle before." 



It has been said that an education may 

 be acquired in the spearing of eels: 

 assuredly school and college may fail to 

 impart it. Eel-spearing and the calcu- 

 lus are occasions and not causes, for man 

 is endogenous, and the process of un- 

 folding bears no necessary relation to 

 the mass of his information. The habi- 

 tant of the elder generation can seldom 

 read, write or cipher. Much of what we 



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