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After one side is uncovered and plastered, it has 

 to remain twelve hours to harden. Then we 

 must return to turn it over and plaster the other 

 side, allowing it to harden before we go after it 

 with a horse and sled. During all this time we 

 might have found a complete skeleton. 



When we reached our big scow in 1914, we 

 found the seams had opened along the bottom 

 and we were forced to recaulk it. The first thing 

 was to clean out the old oakum and coal tar. 

 Our eyes filled with the poisonous tar irritating 

 them almost beyond endurance. After that was 

 done, with arms above our heads, we drove in the 

 oakum with caulking tools and then retarred the 

 seams. I will acknowledge I did not do my full 

 duty here, I spent most of my time in the hills 

 exploring, which was more to my liking. This 

 trying work the boys accomplished at last. Then 

 came the supreme test. Will it keep out the 

 water? We slid her down on skids into the river, 

 and she rode as buoyantly as a duck, though not 

 so gracefully. 



We had picked out a place to camp three miles 

 above "Happy Jack Ferry." So George, Charlie, 

 and Mr. Johnson, hauled the scow up to the 

 camping ground with our moter-boat, accom- 

 plishing a jfeat, I had thought impossible. For- 

 tunately they had a strong wind in their favor, 

 and the tents pitched on board, acted as sails 

 and helped them breast the current. Levi and T 

 moved the lumber up to camp in our wagon 



