That seemed to teach him • wisdom ; for at 

 the next attempt he shot through a black 

 eddy from which all the salmon took their 

 leap, flung himself upward in a glorious arc, 

 struck fair in the swift water above the falls, 

 and in an instant was flashing and plunging 

 up through the rapids. Not till he reached 

 a great pool two or three miles above did he 

 halt, and then he settled down in another 

 eddy to rest for his next effort. 



So he journeyed upwards for nearly two 

 months, tarrying below the worst rapids for 

 a fall of water, and waiting for the rains 

 wherever the river spread into broad shal- 

 lows that hardly covered the salmon as they 

 wriggled and splashed their way upward. 

 Here, one moonlit night, something like a 

 black stump stood squarely athwart Kop- 

 seep's path. He was splashing his way 

 toward it when a sudden alarm made him 

 halt behind a rock. A heedless fat salmon 

 went lumbering by; the stump suddenly 

 started into life; then the fat salmon went 

 flying out on shore from the sweep of a paw, 

 and Mooween the bear went humping and 



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