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attention to them, but kept on searching for his 
friend. Keeping in the background, they trailed 
on behind, until, following Mrs. Weldon’s foot- 
prints, Bruno took them back to the camp. 
Mrs. Underwood and I spent two weeks near the 
stream where the river-drivers were working. Each 
day with my camera I walked along the banks, 
taking pictures and watching the men at their ex- 
citing work. Most of Gordon’s crew were on the 
drive, and they took great interest in what I was 
doing. They seemed to consider it as a great honor 
that Comrade had come back into the woods to 
watch them. 
The life of a river-driver is hard: his days are 
long, and the work is rough and dangerous. The 
water is icy cold. The snow still lingers in the 
woods, and the drive begins on the day when the 
ice leaves the lakes. On our stream the men were 
most accommodating: they did everything they 
could for me so that my pictures should be suc- 
cessful. Where the stream was narrow, they felled 
trees across to make bridges, so that Mrs. Under- 
wood and I could pass from one bank to another. 
All kinds of stunts were done for our benefit. 
They had burling contests, in which two men 
stood on a single log, each trying to roll the other 
off. The man who fell had to swim. Wet clothes 
were of no moment to those husky chaps. That 
