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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 14, 1910. 
marvelous how she sat there in the bow, grip¬ 
ping her paddle and balancing herself without 
grasping the gunwales, something a woman does 
the first thing, should the boat list a wee bit. 
As the boat slid over the rock and into the water 
below, I mounted the rock and pulling the boat 
back alongside of it quickly stepped in. Thanks 
to my wife’s ever ready paddle, we came through 
the chute with no further trouble. We found 
Siwash and the Schoolma’m ashore on a small 
gravel bar a half mile or so below, preparing 
lunch and wondering what had become of us. 
On overturning my canoe I was glad to find 
that the rock had not torn the canvas, only the 
enamel having suffered. We put a coat of shel¬ 
lac over the exposed surface. 
Before we went on after lunch we levied on 
a nearby cornfield. Strange how these little 
cornfields would pop up at the right time and 
temptingly wave their golden tassels at us. 
Shortly after this lunch we passed Lick Creek 
and from there on rapids were of common oc¬ 
currence. We hardly recovered from the ex¬ 
citement of shooting one when the noise of an¬ 
other would be heard. The Devil’s Racecourse, 
a rapids of some note among the Meramec 
canoeists, was successfully negotiated that after¬ 
noon The Devil’s Racecourse was marked as 
the terminus of our trip by a number of the 
paddlers at the club who . were not entirely 
familiar with the ability of the fair members 
of our expedition. This rapid is about a mile 
long and on both sides rise high precipitous 
bluffs. The river upon entering the gorge nar¬ 
rows to a width of about thirty feet. Large 
rocks, some of them ten feet high, fill the channel, 
and one had to be on the alert to avoid striking 
them. A number of the rocks were below the 
surface of the water and often, because of the 
very rough water, gave no indication of their 
presence. Both boats managed to touch a few 
of these on the way through and their sharp 
edges left marks on the bottoms. The Peter¬ 
borough got one, particularly bad knock in this 
canon. As we emerged at the other end with¬ 
out having shipped a drop of water, our pent-up 
feelings were loosed in one glad shout. We then 
had several miles of paddling through a deep, 
wide pool. Leaving this we rounded a bend and 
perceived, about 300 yards ahead of us, a green 
canoe with someone in it, energetically wielding 
a bait-casting rod. The fisherman saw us at the 
same moment and the shrill “Ah-ha-a-a-a-a-a,” 
Jim Westrich’s copyrighted yell, which floated 
up to us, identified him. Casting off, he swung 
in between us, and asking two questions to the 
stroke, guided us to Scotia Creek, a half mile 
below, where was located “Honeymoon Camp.” 
It would be difficult to picture a more ideal 
fishing stream than Scotia Creek. As it enters 
the Meramec it is about twenty feet wide, sev¬ 
eral feet deep and its waters, clear as crystal, 
move at a speed of seven or eight miles per 
hour. Scotia Creek is formed by the Huzzah 
fork of the Meramec and Courtois Creek, lov¬ 
ingly known to the fly-fishermen of Missouri as 
the good old “Curt-a-way,” after the French. 
These two combine at a point about three miles 
from the Meramec near the postoffice of Scotia. 
Mrs. Jim was in the water enjoying herself as 
we swung around and paddled up the creek. Her 
enthusiasm at seeing us caused her to forget 
that she was in the water, whereupon she 
promply swallowed a large portion of Scotia 
Creek. 
As it was getting late, we begged off answer¬ 
ing any more questions until our camp was up 
and the inner man satisfied; whereupon good old 
Jim pitched in and helped us pitch camp on a 
gravel bar a few hundred yards from the mouth 
of the creek. Our campsite was not a choice one, 
but as the newlyweds had pre-empted the de¬ 
sirable portion of one shore and Cap Wallace 
the other, we had no choice. Wallace was out 
with a following of railway men in a tent that 
looked like the main affair of a circus. 
On unpacking our kit we made a discovery. 
We had left our wire fire grates at the last camp 
under Steeleville Bridge. Now we had been 
camping for a number of years and never until 
this trip had we possessed a camp-fire grate, nor 
had we fared badly. Now that we had lost 
ours, however, we were all sure that satisfactory 
meals were no longer possible on the trip. This 
ridiculous state of mind obtained for some time. 
Each of us blamed the other for leaving the 
items behind. The other three voyagers will 
learn, when they read this, if they ever do, the 
real truth concerning the fire grates. I was the 
culprit. That morning, when breaking camp, I 
had picked up the grates, and finding them too 
hot to stow in the boat, dropped them in the 
shallow water beside the canoe and promptly 
forgot them. My conscience pricked me and I 
erected two forked sticks and a cross piece on 
which to hang the kettles. All this consumed 
time, and it was dark before our evening meal 
was through with. 
Conrad Lueke, Jr. 
[to be continued.] 
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on Sunday the 29th, on down Monday the 30th 
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Jr.. Pres. 
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