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met a fine buck, the father of the family 
possibly, and the next twist brought us 
upon his younger brother—five deer in as 
many minutes. We were glad we had fol¬ 
lowed the stream—when suddenly we came 
face to face with the rapids. Paddling 
like slaves in each stretch of open water, 
poling through the rocks, we worked our 
way for a short distance. But we soon had 
to get out and, wading knee deep, literally 
drag the canoe through. We hauled it up 
two sizable falls into quiet water where 
the stream wound leisurely through a 
weird desolate country of peat bogs and 
water lily fields dominated by blackened 
timber. The whole marsh was trampled 
by deer and moose, until it looked like a 
vast cattle yard. We saw a score of deer 
and one splendid moose feeding, waist high, 
on the water-lilies. 
W E ate lunch by the dam at the outlet 
of Johnny lake, and on along its 
twisting shore into Crooked lake we 
paddled all afternoon ’til we came to the 
narrows. An aldermanic porcupine swim¬ 
ming across the lake landed on a grassy 
point and went off into the woods with 
pompous dignity, and we took his hint for 
a good camping place. In our larder were 
a rabbit, a partridge, a blackbird, and a big 
bass, and we dropped them all into the 
pot along with a can of mock turtle soup. 
Even now, when I have a particularly good 
appetite my memory turns fondly to the 
deep tin plhte piled high with that savory 
bergou —our hunter’s banquet of soup, fish, 
game, and meat all in one. The old por¬ 
cupine, so the tracks in the sand told, must 
have brought his wife to call on us dur¬ 
ing the night, and only left when Miss 
Fox dropped in for her bite of cold supper. 
In the morning we rigged a sail and with 
a fair wind glided quickly through Three- 
mile and Bell lakes. But in big, S- 
shaped Balsam lake our troubles began. A 
steady soaking rain commenced to fall, 
and about four o’clock, when we came to 
where the portage to Fox lake should have 
been, we could not find it. There was the 
big marsh, with its little trickling stream 
going off as the compass showed straight 
northwest—as the map said it would—but 
neither to the right nor to the left could 
we see the white fire notice the rangers post 
to mark portages. We got out and 
scouted along the shore; but we found no 
trail. We consulted the map and decided 
we might have overshot our mark and 
gone through into Peter lake, so we re¬ 
traced our course. However, the direction 
and shape of the lake, checked up with 
map and compass, said plainly that we 
were still in Balsam lake. The rain 
poured down and it was getting dark, so 
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