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THREE TENDERFEET 
ON THE “JIM” RIVER 
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rapids on the James River. In one place 
the water rushes between two upstanding 
rocks with barely room between for our 
boat to pass. 
Some will wonder how these boats man¬ 
age to survive these encounters. They are 
built of heavy planking just for this pur¬ 
pose and it would take a good deal of bat¬ 
tering to break one up. We had noted the 
absence of canoes on the “Jim” and had 
wondered at it. We were laughed at sev¬ 
eral times when we mentioned canoes, but 
now we were beginning to understand why. 
A cedar canoe could not stand the trip 
unless it be in time of high water, and 
portage around the shoals is out of the 
question. A friend of mine, however, has 
lately made this trip in a canvas canoe and 
won through safely and this, too, in low 
water. But the last day of the float the 
bottom of the canoe resembled a sieve! 
On the second day after this we had an¬ 
other scare. Bearing in mind the solemn 
warning to camp back from the stream on 
account of the sudden rises that the “Jim” 
is subject to, each night we camped forty 
or more feet back. About daybreak I was 
awakened by a shout from Hale, and, sit¬ 
ting up. I found that we were nearly sur¬ 
rounded by water and almost all our equip¬ 
ment was covered. We were overtaken by 
a sudden rise in the river. Glancing down 
stream, I was just in time to see our boat 
rounding a bend. I raced after it, leav¬ 
ing the others to recover our submerged 
goods, caught it about half a mile from 
camp and poled it back to the nearest rap¬ 
ids, where I tied it to a tree. Returning 
to camp, I found Pard sitting on the rocks 
and freely cursing the James River, and 
everything that pertained thereto. It de¬ 
veloped that everything was recovered but 
Pard’s favorite casting rod and reel. 
On the fifth day we passed out of the 
“Jim” into the White River. Our journey 
was a little over half done. The most dan¬ 
gerous part of the trip lay behind us. But 
the White River shoals, though fewer, still 
have their thrills. The White, being wider 
than the “Jim,” is necessarily more slug¬ 
gish so it becomes more and more neces¬ 
sary to use the paddle. The waters are not 
so clear, either, still they are not muddy. 
O N a-down the White we paddled. The 
same wonderful scenery that showed 
along the “Jim” was still with us— 
great towering bluffs and rolling “balds”— 
the same wonderful bass fishing, until some 
time during the ninth day we came in sight 
of a sugar-loaf hill that Hale declared was 
“Dewey Bald.” So, forthwith, we disem¬ 
barked at a place Hale said was Jackson’s 
hollow. We planned to spend the next 
day, figuratively speaking, with the “Shep¬ 
herd of the Hills.” 
A three-mile hike through the loveliest 
country imaginable, brought us to the 
aforementioned “Dewey Bald.” “Preach¬ 
in’ ” Bill,” who runs the ferry, says, 
“When God looked upon the work of his 
hands an’ called hit good, he war sure 
a-lookin’ at this here Ozark Country.” 
Those of us who know the Ozarks feeT 
that “Preachin’ Bill” was rather conserva- 
