May 14, 1910.] 
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THE SCHOOLMA’AM AND SIWASH. 
have finished the day as well as Boots had done. 
That a woman witn pluck will go just as tar, u 
not further, than tne average young man, is a 
fact the knowledge of whicn i have gamed in 
that most excellent school—experience. 
Boots was an ideal canoe mate, i rue, she did 
not possess the strength ot a young man and 
she could hardly be termed a steady padd»er. 
She had christened herself the lazy canoeist, but 
this was no fault in my eyes. We were floating 
down stream and in water where a single pad¬ 
dle could carry one fast enough. Again, 1 am 
not partial to a too-busy paddier on the front 
seat. I like to do my own work in the rapids. 
Several disastrous experiences with bow pad- 
dlers who had their own ideas of steering past 
obstructions had taught me to appreciate my 
wife’s willingness to do nothing. 1 do not want 
to create the impression that she was not alert 
at all times; she knew the absolute necessity for 
that When 1 needed help on either side it was 
given instantly and correctly when asked for. 
On this trip Boots was further handicapped by 
the loss of her four-and-a-half-foot paddle—lost 
on the way from St. James to the river—and 
was compelled to use one much too large and 
heavy for her arms. In camp she never shirked, 
nor did she complain when the way was rough. 
Many a time her cheerful smile and the example 
of her forbearing set me right. When my stock 
of stamina would slip away after a succession 
of calamities. Boots was always there to put the 
brake on, and together we would go over the 
bumps and end it all with a laugh. In camp the 
laugh is the thing. One good, hearty, chronic 
laugher should be taken along on every cruise. 
I should not care to penetrate too deeply into 
the wilds with a party who took themselves 
seriously. 
Our early to bed program caused us to rise 
early, yet it was past 8 o’clock when we pushed 
off. Fish dams were the order of the third day. 
We would shoot one through, carry over the 
next and let down another by the tracking ropes. 
We must have passed a half dozen that morn¬ 
ing. All these had openings, usually in the cen¬ 
ter, but occasionally at the shore end. These 
openings were made, as I understand, by game 
wardens who blew them out with dynamite. 
This was done several years before, shortly 
after the enactment of a new game law which 
prohibited the damming of a fish-inhabited stream 
without providing proper runways or ladders. 
It will be a long time before fishing in the 
Meramec will recover from the condition the 
market fishermen have placed it by the use of 
these dams and fish traps, unless our fish com¬ 
mission gets busy. 
Boots and I have cause to remember one of 
these dams. This one had an opening fully eight 
feet wide at the shore end. This looked like 
plenty of room for us, and as I saw no evi¬ 
dences of rocks from a survey taken standing 
up in the canoe, I decided to shoot through. 
Just as we entered the chute we struck a large 
flat-topped rock which was covered with moss. 
We were moving so rapidly that the canoe 
mounted the rock and then careened to one side, 
but did not topple over, thanks to the wide 
guides’ model on which it was built. Many times 
during the last two days I had called my canoe 
an old tub, as Siwash’s speedy little Peterbor¬ 
ough would pass us, but at that moment I was 
glad that we were not in the Peterborough. The 
water just boiled by on either side of us. I had 
some difficulty thrusting my paddle to the bot¬ 
tom to ascertain the depth, which I found to 
be about five feet. There was no help for it. I 
had to get out. Gingerly I crawled back over 
the stern and let myself down into the water. 
The force of the water pressed me tightly to 
the rock on which, like the ark on Ararat, the 
canoe was perched. This really was an assist¬ 
ance, as I was thus enabled to use both my arms. 
Right there I learned to respect the equilibrium 
maintaining faculty of my canoe mate. It was 
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