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Photo by B. Sutton 



WORTH GOING AFTER 



the river. We were surely going in just 

 about the right direction, but presently he 

 turned sharp to the left. Why he did it I 

 did not know, but I followed him. In fifteen 

 minutes we had reached the river, and, 

 what was more, we had reached the canoe, 

 and not only that, but without following the 

 river up or down one inch, we had on a 

 course at right angles to the river inter- 

 sected it exactly where the canoe lay. The 

 canoe, being on the side of the steep bank, 

 was entirely invisible from the forest. I 

 pondered over this as we paddled back to 

 camp. Finally, after much deliberation to 

 make sure that I was not asking an unneces- 



sary question, I ventured to say, " Pierre, 

 how did you find the canoe ? Did you strike 

 our trail?" 



"No," said he, "we came back a differ- 

 ent way." 



After a pause, during which "I had again 

 considered the feat from every possible 

 viewpoint, I said, "How do you hit the 

 canoe so exactly?" 



"When I started out," replied Pierre, 

 "I marked where it was." 



"So did I," I answered, "but I couldn't 

 have hit it so exactly. Why did you turn to 

 your left back there in the bush?" 



"Because," said he, "when we started 



