826 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 21, 1910. 
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on the way back to camp. This, by the way. 
was not conducive to swift travel. Time passed 
swiftly; more so than we knew. This was 
brought home to us as we stepped out of the 
boat at the camp and were met by two irate 
young ladies. My! what a rakinj* over we did 
get for coming home so late. Explanations 
were vain. Perhaps we overdid it. One should 
never overwork the truth. And then we were 
both talking at one time, which in itself was a 
bad thing as the girls said afterward. And also 
we gave too many reasons. We should have 
concentrated on one, or at the most two. But 
the scenery, the beautiful stream, the fishing, the 
little whirlpool where we had to carry, the quaint 
old store, the little postmistress, the oldest in¬ 
habitant—all this was too much for the girls to 
assimilate on an empty stomach. 
We ate our supper penitently by. the light of 
the candle lantern, and afterward Siwash and 
I washed the dishes. I sued and won forgive¬ 
ness with the aid of the candy bananas, but Si- 
wash crawled into his canvas home unforgiven 
and miserable on the exterior. 
My diary records that on Friday, the 13th, 
there was difficulty in starting a fire. We could 
not induce the girls to travel on that unlucky 
•day. Immediately after breakfast I succeeded in 
enlisting Jim in a fishing enterprise. We' took 
his fifteen-foot canoe and poled up the Meramec 
to a slough or branch of the parent stream 
which, although but a few feet wide, was from 
five to fifteen feet deep. We rightly judged we 
should get some fish there, and we did. The 
fish, however, soon left, probably because we had 
made too much commotion. When the biting 
ceased we poled further up into the river, an¬ 
chored the canoe under the overhanging bluff 
and tried “nigger fishing” with floats and sink¬ 
ers. We caught some large topwater minnows 
and baited them so that they would float or swim 
about three feet below the surface. Then we 
let the current carry the floats down stream, pay¬ 
ing off line just fast enough to prevent slack. 
Sometimes the corks would float almost out of 
sight before a fish would take them under. 
Again, we had to reel the line back empty. I 
Tiad some trouble inducing Jim to quit. I was 
told by both the ladies that. I must be back at 
noon, and I did not desire a second time to 
arouse the wrath of the powers at camp. Finally 
I was obliged to cast off and paddle back alone, 
while Jim fished all the way. He did not catch 
a thing on the journey, as I told him would be 
■the case. 
We planned to start back to our fishing place 
-immediately after lunch, but Mrs. Jim had other 
plans for Jim. During the morning a conclave 
was held in camp under the chairmanship of the 
Schoolma’m, and it was decided that the Newly¬ 
weds should pack up their permanent camp, rid 
themselves of their heaviest luggage and accom¬ 
pany us down the river for the balance of the 
cruise. Nothing could have pleased Jim better 
and he at once started in to reduce his outfit 
to a canoe load. At our camp all four indulged 
in some plain, unadulterated loafing. At four, 
Siwash proposed to try his hand at fishing. We 
had a few minnows left and made directly for 
the spot where Jim and I had tied up in the 
morning. To save time poling up the rapids we 
paddled up the little slough, and as Siwash had 
his line all ready and baited, I advised him to 
throw in ahead of the canoe, which he did. and 
the minnow was almost instantly seized by a 
half-pounder which was landed after a little 
struggle. For half an hour we both tried to 
land another out of the same hole, but had to 
give it up. We found, by referring to our 
watch, that we had just forty minutes to fish 
after arriving at the spot where Jim and I had 
still-fished in the morning. We managed to get 
four in that time, all sizeable small-mouths. I 
had no trouble inducing Siwash to discard his 
rod for the paddle, but when I said, “Ten to six, 
old man,” he grabbed his paddle and worked 
like a Trojan. We had a few minutes to spare 
when we stepped out of the canoe at the camp. 
The girls met us with a broad grin, evidently 
pleased with our obedience to their authority. 
Boots was in very good humor and spread 
before us a meal fit for hungry fishermen who, 
hy the way, have kings backed off the stage 
when it comes to eating. The biscuits were espe¬ 
cially fine, and the Schoolma’m had made some 
apple jelly that afternoon which was delicious. 
I was unfortunate enough to lose my pipe in 
the afternoon, but Siwash came to the rescue. 
Kephart, in his “Camping and Woodcraft,” 
warns campers to take an extra pipe along. His 
warning should be heeded. Siwash carried a 
banker’s coin sack full of pipes. On this trip 
he had no less than eight, ranging in value from 
THE TENT AND CANOE ON THE GRAVEL BAR. 
a quarter to ten dollars. I selected a Missouri 
meerschaum from the collection and used it with 
great satisfaction on the rest of the journey. 
Conrad Lueke, Jr. 
[to be continued.] 
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