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though George insisted that he caught 
sight of one over a foot long. At any 
rate between us we filched eight small 
fish from the unwilling water and re- 
turned to its mouth for lunch. There 
upon the bank of the St. Croix, perfectly 
screened from the water, we cooked and 
ate our trout to the music of heavy thun- 
der in the north. Believing that we were 
to be treated to another rain-storm we 
did not linger over the tea-cups, but 
quickly washed dishes and put out under 
the blazing sun. 
The river had assumed a Hudson-like 
appearance, high bluffs, well wooded, 
succeeded by stretches of lowland, some- 
times marsh, often heavily covered with 
ash, swamp-maple, elm, and timber of 
that ilk. Always we were running upon 
sand-bars where the water would shoal 
to almost nothing, though at the lower 
edge it would drop sheer twelve to twenty 
feet. It is not a river to fool with. 
Needless to say, wall-eyes and northern 
pike would be found in the deep water 
just off the bars. At almost any hour 
of the day we could have wall-eyes just 
for the casting, so our larder was always 
supplied with that prince of fryers. 
Along in the afternoon we ran into 
an ancient clammer, dirty and smelly, 
busy at his unattractive craft. Later on 
we came upon a clammer settlement on 
the Minnesota side, the great heaps of 
stinking shells being conspicuous adver- 
tisement of their business. We passed 
them swiftly, like the priest and Levite 
of the story, “on the other side”. We 
went into camp on the top of a high 
bluff on the Minnesota side, many rat- 
tling springs at its foot tumbling cold 
water into the river. The climb was 
somewhat difficult for a cut foot and 
broken ribs, but we wanted to get above 
the mosquitoes, which we failed in doing, 
the night proving hot and close. After 
supper a few moments’ work with the 
short rod resulted in a pair of fine wall- 
eyes and we returned to camp. 
W E were up early, for from what 
information we had been able to 
glean we knew that Kettle River 
Rapids were not a great way below and, 
like true canoeists we were eager to ad- 
venture them. A home-made stern wheel 
steamboat lying high and dry on the 
Minnesota bank attracted our attention 
and we stopped to examine it. Finding 
a sign-board tacked to its side with the 
emphatic statement: “No Camping 
Here!” we scrawled beneath, “Who in 
thunder wants to?” and departed. Short- 
ly after, coming to a ferry, we paused to 
talk with the man in charge. We dis- 
covered that there were numerous trout 
streams on the Minnesota side, emptying 
into the rivers that were continually 
uniting with the St. Croix. We were 
told that the stream just above the ferry, 
Hay Creek, had a good trout stream en- 
tering not twenty rods above its mouth. 
Our informant also said that the sur- 
rounding country was good “bear coun- 
try”, that he had secured three during 
the previous season. He also warned us 
to watch for a large creek about two 
miles below the ferry, Bear Creek, on 
the Minnesota side, as it marked the be- 
ginning of “Kettle River Rapids”, six 
miles long. Ever since entering the St. 
