Sept. 20, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
YVANAQUE RIVER TRIP. 
Continued from page 371. 
and pretty soon Hugh got sleepy and went off 
to bed. W.e didn't hear a word from him, and 
finally we all turned out the lights and went to 
our rooms. Ed. and I slept well, the bed was 
clean and very comfortable, and we woke up 
about 6 a. m. and got dressed in a hurry, but 
when we looked out of the window, it was snow¬ 
ing. We hiked downstairs and called the other 
fellows through the porch window, and all we 
got in reply was a shoe nicely aimed, but poorly 
thrown in our direction. Charley was all rolled 
up in a ball in the cotton comfortable, trying to 
keep warm and cussing the arrangement of the 
bed. He had lost himself in the tangle of sheets 
and was too sleepy to try and get them straight¬ 
ened out. About 6:30 we all turned out for 
breakfast, and such a meal! A big juicy orange 
each, hot oatmeal, three fried eggs and all the 
bacon we could eat, hot biscuits and coffee, and 
then in rummaging around I found a big, lus¬ 
cious mince pie cooling off, and they said we 
could help ourselves, but we had had so much 
before that we couldn't take another bite. It 
was still snowing when we started out, and we 
had that four-mile hike from Sterling Forest 
to Hewitt, where the canoes were and no train 
arriving or leaving the place until 6:30 that 
evening. We finally hiked it with our duffle 
bags on our shoulders and got to Hewitt about 
9 a. m. on account of a lot of fooling and stops 
to take pictures of the ‘‘horrible Glen." The 
Glen was bad enough to tell the truth, but had 
we been there the week before, when the water 
was three feet higher, we could have made it 
without any great difficulty. 
When we got to Hewitt we took a look in¬ 
side the canoes and almost fainted right on the 
spot. The paddling cushion in Jack’s boat was 
a mass of charred cork and leather, and a spot 
about a foot square was burned black. The 
agent explained that after our train left the 
station Saturday evening, he noticed smoke aris¬ 
ing from the canoes, and got there just in time 
to put out the cushion which had caught fire 
from a hot coal from the fire-box of the engine. 
Only the varnish was scorched inside the canoe, 
but for a moment we thought we saw the end 
of our trip at the very beginning. 
From the station there was a carry of about 
a thousand yards to the river, and when we got 
there we found that there was not enough water 
to float a canoe with two men in it, so Hugh 
had to run along the bank until the stream 
deepened, and then they got in with Charley 
(and Jack respectively), while I went on alone. 
As we experienced the previous week, the fun 
began immediately after the start, but this time 
it was on account of the extremely low water 
(three feet difference between the levels of the 
river in one week). Rocks stuck up all around 
and it was dodge, twist and turn and quick work 
to save the boat. 
I was mighty glad that I was alone, as I 
never would have been able to make it with a 
■man in the bow. When I came to a rapid, I 
dropped the double blade and shifted to a single, 
as that was the only thing that could be used in 
■quick water. When we came to a comparatively 
smooth stretch, I could resume the doubles and 
keep up with the others. 
I don’t remember very much of the first part 
■of the trip, because although the water was fast 
and shallow and one had to be on the alert to 
get through without a good bump, there were no 
very large drops or rapids where anything special 
occurred, and we had not very much to enliven 
the trip. We struck a little ford just on the up 
stream side of a low concrete bridge and had 
to lift the canoes over that, make a nasty little 
turn, and then a quick run through some mussy 
water and then more easy running. The canoe 
was much easier to handle alone, and if it had 
not been for the extreme cold and occasional 
really blinding snow flurries, the trip would have 
been rather slow. 
After one particularly hard run we ran 
plumb on to a tree that was level with the water, 
and it was a case of jump out, skin the canoe 
over, and hop in again before the current caught 
you, and turned the canoe broadside and swamp¬ 
ed it, and after we were over there ran a nice 
stretch of smooth, easy water ahead of us with 
not a ripple breaking the surface to denote any 
hidden rocks or sticks. While running along, 
Ed., who was in the bow, noticed a stick just 
below the surface of the water, dead ahead and 
leisurely asked Jack which side to turn. Jack 
looked ahead and called right and swung the 
stern easily, but they were careless and the canoe 
hit amidships, but after a casual inspection 
everything seemed to be all right. However, 
Ed. soon began to feel water around his knees, 
and on turning around and shoving the duffle 
bag aside to get a look at the flooring under¬ 
neath, a young waterspout shot up in the middle 
of the boat, and they just had time to get to 
the shore before she filled up and began to 
settle. There was a hole in the boat as big as 
your fist, and it took some practical patching 
with the shellac and linen on hand to fix it up 
watertight. While they were doing this, I 
bandaged Hugh’s ankles, which were all barked 
and cut where he had scrambled through the 
underbrush when he had to get out and run 
along shore on account of the water being too 
shallow for two men in a boat, and then as the 
grass was nice and soft, and it was kind of 
chilly standing around, Charley and I began to 
run races around a little circle, and then I tried 
a few front flips and Hugh snapped a couple 
of them just as another snow flurry came pell- 
mell over the hills. 
After the patching we ran along nicely for 
quite a while, when we ran upon a place where 
a farmer had made a nice private rapids and 
falls by dumping a lot of his field stone into the 
stream. There were some negroes nearby prun¬ 
ing trees, and they came running down to the 
side of the brook, and when they saw us pre¬ 
paring to shoot the rapids, they ran down to 
points of vantage to see us get the wetting they 
thought sure was coming to us. I ran it first, 
and as I approached, I stood up to take a look 
at matters and decided to try it. I had not been 
overboard and didn’t feel that I was having any 
kind of a trip. We had to enter the rapid on 
the left, make a sharp turn to the right, and 
then another still quicker turn to the left to 
avoid a second shelf of rock, and then a long 
slanting run to the right to still water below. I 
made the run without difficulty, and when I got 
to the bottom, hopped out and ran back to get 
pictures of the others coming through, and Jack 
and Ed. made it without any trouble, except once 
when they were a trifle undecided which side to 
swing her, and almost hung up in the middle on 
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