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ing for a night near the mouth of tlie Big Eagle 
at a spring. One delightful feature of the trip 
was that at nearly every camping place we found 
a spring, so there was no lack of good drink¬ 
ing water, iMassed cumulus clouds to the west 
and north, and the mutter of distant thunder, 
warned us that a storm was imminent, so we 
moved our tent from heneath some tall pines 
where we had first placed it to a well drained 
spot close to the Eagle. While I was busy with 
the tent. Wife and Girl were cooking supper. 
Our preparations were completed none too soon, 
for even while we were disposing of the meal, 
rain began to fall; not tempestuously as we first 
feared, hut gently, soothingly. We played au¬ 
thors in the tent tor a while, allowing Girl to 
beat us to her great delight, then lay and listened 
C.\STING FOR TROUT IN LITTLE E.\GLE F.\LLS. 
to the gentle patter of the drops, fell asleep and 
wakened to hear the roar of the rain on tiie 
taut roof of silk. 
The next morning, the rain having cleared 
away, we visited Little Eagle Falls—or as they 
are now called 1 y some, Conover Falls—where 
Wr. Conover, of th, mouth, Wis., has one of his 
outdoor homes. The door is decorated with the 
outlines of two large rainbows caught, if 1 re¬ 
member correctly, ly a son and his wife in 
front of the shanty. We failed to secure a rise. 
The only conclusion that I can come to is that 
when rainl'.ow rise they rise, ar.d when thsy 
don't, they don't. 
We followed down the Peshtigo, stumbletl 
upon a patch of blueberries the Indians had 
failed to discover, and paused to eat our fill. 
That day we saw a l.uck and a doe; the former, 
a magnificent rascal of at least three hundred 
pounds, trotted up to within ten rods and looked 
us over with all the deliberation in the world. 
Flis curiosity satisfied, he turned and bounded 
away, follow^cd I'v Ids consort. Me seemed to 
know that it was the closed season. Crossing 
th.e Peshtigo on the iron l)ridce at Twin Falls, 
we swung off to the south ar.d west in the direc¬ 
tion of Thunder iMcimtain. leaving the Peshtigo 
and its big fish behiiul us. 
Crossing “cut over" lar.d one cannot help being 
impressed by the destructive methods of the 
lumbermen. They literally skin the land, leav¬ 
ing the refuse in such shape that fire must in¬ 
evitably follow. The country l}ing between High 
l-'alls ai'd Thunder Mountani has recently been 
C.\MP ON THE SOUTH BR.\NCH OF THE THUNDER RIVER. 
