Sept. 16, 1911] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
469 
FROM ROSSIGNOL TO TUSKET. 
Continued from page 450. 
narrow Stillwater for some time, we came to 
the remains of a burnt dam, relict of long gone 
days of lumbering. Around the blackened, rot¬ 
ting timbers we had to make a carry of a few 
paces, and it was here we started to catch the 
usual day's quota of trout. Near an old camp¬ 
fire we saw a bunch of porcupine quills, and 
later kicked over a part of the dried thorax. At 
once Lawrence, a perfect Sherlock Holmes in 
the woods, said that some French-Canadians 
had camped there. It appears that the French 
are the only people who eat “porkies,” though 
Dr. Breck had warmly recommended the liver, 
nicely broiled, as quite a delicacy. However, 
any yearnings we might have had for broiled 
porcupine liver were offset by Lawrence's em¬ 
phatic utterances on the subject. One time 
when he was lost in the woods he was obliged 
to take to a diet of porcupine in default of 
anything else. 
The only exciting adventure of the morning 
came when we were paddling along over a long 
deadwater, when suddenly a crackling of sticks 
was heard in a little thicket just ahead. While 
we were hurrying ashore Horace and Lawrence 
commenced to “call.” We heard the answer 
and caught glimpses of a cow moose weaving 
back and forth through the bushes. She was a 
large cow, but her coat was rough and poor. 
We heard a calf bleat two or three times, but 
could not see it in the undergrowth. 
There seemed to be plenty of trout, but we 
caught none weighing a pound. By night the 
total catch numbered forty-nine. We lunched 
on a pretty wooded knoll close to the com¬ 
mencement of the carry to Sixth Lake stream. 
This carry is on the route to Bear River by 
way of Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth lakes 
and Lake Jolly. Near it was an old camp, and 
scattered about it we saw the whitened bones 
of an unusually larg moose. Further back in 
the woods were the log ruins of an extensive 
lumber camp. 
All afternoon we wandered down the pretty 
Sissyboo, paddling mostly, and getting through 
the rougher faster places without mishap, 
though there were many times when the for¬ 
ward crew had to disembark. The west wind 
had freshened and was a nuisance when the 
winding course made it a head wind, while, 
when fair, the poncho sails were brought into 
action. Two or three miles before we reached 
Fifth Lake we noted the confluence of Sixth 
Lake Stream with ours, and below this, the 
Sissyboo was quite a sizable little river. The 
banks were beautifully and closely verdured. 
Rocks ceased to be as prominent a feature of 
the landscape as they were further up. 
We reached Fifth Lake after 4 o’clock, having 
traveled north by northwest all day. We were 
to turn right-about-face and go in a general 
southerly direction to the salt water at Tusket. 
We entered the lake near its southeastern cor¬ 
ner, and immediately ran into a sea which 
pitched and tossed the canoes around severely. 
Taking advantage of all possible wind-breaks 
on the shore, and paddling steadily at bow and 
stern, we first struck directly north out on the 
lake to round two long points of land, then 
turning westward and hugging the south shore, 
we bent our shoulders for a hard two-mile pull 
in the face of the wind. We passed several 
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