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By hard-tack Cuthbert really meant the regular ship biscuit used on all sailing vessels along the seashore and the lakes there are two brands; one a bit more tasty than the other, and this is supposed to be for the officers' mess; but in a pinch both fill the bill admirably, as myriads of canoeists are willing to testify with upraised hand.
I took leave of the beautiful and well laid-out city with a pang of regret not usual with canoeists, who find it best for their comfort and peace of mind to keep with their dainty crafts away from the heterogeneous and not over-civil population which gathers along the water-fronts of a port. Monday, November 9, was a cold, wet day. Mr.
Of course the boys assented eagerly, but as it was found that only Frank and Harry were expert canoeists, it was agreed that the others should fish from the bank while the two young leaders trolled their lines from a native built craft. This canoe was kept at the falls to which they tramped the two miles overland by a narrow trail. The falls were a magnificent sight.
By that time the two canoeists had given themselves up to laughter and sat shaking as their canoes drifted. Only the island continued merrily upon the flood tide. "Called off?" somebody called from the shore. "Certainly it's called off," said the official in the launch. "This was supposed to be a race, not a game of tag." "Come on! Come on!" screamed Pee-wee from the departing isle.
"Ready for the horn!" called Harvey, holding his paddle in his right hand and a long, tin horn in the other. "All ready!" sang out the canoeists. Harvey put the horn to his lips and blew a loud, full blast. The paddles struck the water with a vigour, and the race was begun. The three canoes shot ahead of Harvey's at the start, owing to the slight delay caused him in dropping the horn.
Jim and John Ellison were there, a sturdy pair of farm lads; Jack Harvey, apparently much over-matching his mate in physique, but with something in the slighter figure of Henry Burns that indicated resource and staying powers; Tom and Bob, old and hardened canoeists; and George and Arthur Warren, clean-cut and athletic.
Experienced canoeists agree that a canoe of fourteen feet in length, which weighs only seventy pounds, if built of wood, bark, canvas, or paper, when out of the water and resting upon the ground, or even when bedded on some soft material, like grass or rushes, cannot support the sleeping weight of the canoeist for many successive nights without becoming strained.
Back from this a few rods was an old barn, of which the boys of Benton rented a small section for the storage of canoes and paddles. There were four canoes now upon the stream, each containing two occupants. The eight canoeists were stripped for the work, showing a gorgeous, if somewhat worn, array of sleeveless jerseys. The boys were bronzed and healthy looking.
Many years ago, I became convinced that we were all, as canoeists, carrying and paddling just twice as much wood as was at all needful, and something more than a year since, I advanced the opinion in Forest and Stream, that ten pounds of well made cedar ought to carry one hundred pounds of man.
Still, as the sky was cloudless and the blue waters of the island-studded lake looked so peaceful and quiet, he did not prevent Frank and Alec, with the young ladies, from venturing out, but gave them some words of caution and then let the happy canoeists embark, and saw them strike out in unison as away they glided over the little sun-kissed waves.
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