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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 30, 1910. 
several thousand sets of initials are carved 
upon the surface. 
We went through the building which had been 
the store of the village. It is still in excellent 
condition. Mr. May brought forth three old 
ledgers found in this building. The paper was 
yellow with age and would crumble at the 
touch, We noticed with interest that in 1822 
calico cost more per yard than did whiskey per 
gallon. In fact, whiskey was dirt cheap as the 
entry: “1 pt. whiskey to colored boy—six cts.” 
will testify. Yet it is said Meramec was a moral 
village. The old Colonel who owned the mine 
discovered that a rough character had opened 
a saloon nearby, and against his own desire lie 
put in a stock of whiskey and undersold his 
unscrupulous competitor, who at length closed 
up and left that part of the country. Whether 
the Colonel then discontinued the sale of 
spirits, history relateth not. 
I was very anxious to try conclusions again 
with the rainbows in the brook, but my fly-rod 
had been packed with the provisions in the grub 
chest and none could be borrowed. I made an 
efifort to secure the loan of a fly-rod and cast 
of flies. The owner looked at me quizzically 
for some minutes and then replied: “I shall 
never forget the last fisherman to whom I 
loaned my fly-rod. He knew all about fly-fish¬ 
ing, too; had caught oodles of trout back in the 
Addyrawndacks. I let him have my outfit. 
After a time I wandered down to fhe Spring 
Branch, and there by the foot bridge was my 
estimable friend, the fly-fisherman, with a one- 
pounder on his tail fly. He was not playing 
the fish at all. With the rod held straight 
ahead, he was slowly and steadily reeling him 
in. How he managed to hold the fish is beyond 
me. When the fish was directly below the tip 
of his rod, did he stop? No—he kept on reel¬ 
ing the fish, and just as I reached the water’s 
edge, the fish’s head touched the tip and I’ll 
be durned if he didn’t try to pull him through. 
At that moment he perceived me standing on 
shore waving my arms. He turned to me with 
a bewildered look and queried, ‘What shall I do 
now?’ What did I say? I said, ‘Climb up the 
pole after him.’ ” 
The chair-warmers on the porch guffawed, 
and I turned sadly away. It was dreadfully 
AT BREAKFAST. 
hard to stand on the shore of that beautiful 
brook and see the trout swimming in the holes. 
To escape this misery I busied myself with 
the long-distance telephone and tried to get a 
line on our missing chest, which seemed to be 
as hard to locate as Captain Kidd’s treasure 
chest. It was not until after supper that Brock 
telephoned over that it had come in, and that 
he would bring it over at daybreak the next 
morning. True to his word, he arrived while 
we were at breakfast. The morning was clear 
and the indications were that the day would 
be a hot one. Good-byes were said to the 
guests at the club house, and we clambered 
aboard the wagon. 
On the way to the river, Brock made a start¬ 
ling statement: “As I was driving home yester¬ 
day I picked up a paddle and a joint of a tent 
pole. Guess maybe you’d better check up and 
see if anything else is a-missing.” Check up 
we did, and found missing one paddle and 
Boot’s lazy-back. As we had brought along 
several extra paddles, the loss of one was not 
important, but Boots lamented loud and long 
over the loss of her lazy-back. 
A half-hour was required to transfer the pro¬ 
visions from the chest to waterproof bags; first 
to small paraffined bags and then to 9x24-inch 
brown canvas duffle bags, waterproofed. These 
large bags had extra inside throats which were 
tied up and thrust back into the bags, making 
them absolutely watertight. The outfit was 
then sorted out, and to each canoe was assigned 
an equal weight. At a quarter to ten the canoes 
were loaded, all peeled down to bathing suits, 
and I, in my capacity of Captain, said: “Let’s 
go.” 
Conrad Lueke, Jr. 
[to be continued.] 
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