Canoe Mates in Canada; Or, Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan

d smoking furiously, Eli having possibly supplied him with tobacco of a br

at his ease; indeed, his was a nature not easily disturbed by possible trouble-he found the vicinity of th

just what he must be; and while he carried on in a seemingly friendly way, he was watching the other, with the idea of guessing h

alyze people and their motives in a manner equal to a Sherlock Holmes, and Eli had a

rt was

camp, and he was provoked to think they should be compelled to entertain

erning hospitality around the campfire; and no matter how unpleasant the presence of

said unwelcome guest so long as he remained; but Cuthbert vowed to himself that with t

n reach of his hand all the time; which fact announced as plain as words could have done that they entertained

on of firearms levels all such distinctions, and a bit of lead would sting just as much from one of their guns as if it had come f

very evident that he envied him the possession of such a dandy gun, compared with which his battered Wincheste

oung logger, shaking his head in his pet peculiar

f a wink of sleep that whole night; and that if Stackpole attemp

c simplicity had come so far to explore; and had he been built upon a different plan, Stackpole might have proven a valuable man to tote along-he had penetrated further in the direction of Hudson Bay and the Arctic shores beyond th

nd this is reliance in his fidelity, cheerful disposition, and readiness to shoulder at lea

day's toil had been severe, with a strong current in the ri

to make preparat

uriosity, for evidently he knew little or nothing about such Arctic necessities, even though he had accompanied an

rt, for he could appreciate the value of such contrivances during a Northern winter, es

the ground, selecting a spot close to the fire, where he could toast his feet whil

hat all through the night one of them should stand guard, not because there appeared to be impe

gencies cheerfully, and wrestle with difficulties in the same spiri

wed no disposition to occupy the same; but if he understood just why

ing himself to the world, so far as the boys could tell; though they noticed that he had pulled his slouch hat so far down over

chance to confer, and thus a plan of

a world of comfort in these modern contrivances, under such conditions; while Owen walked down to the canoes,

arious sounds of the wilderness, after nightfall had come, were as familiar as the cackling of hens to a farmer's lad, and what w

opical jungle, or the dense growth of an African wilderness where a multitude of an

of the wind among the tops of the pines, or the gurgle of some mean

of the pine lands, is apt to break the monotony; but even in the midst of summer there is lacking the hum of insects and the bustle of woods life-at

udging from his repeated sighs his self-communion was hardly of a cheerful character, for several times the boy gritted his te

further up the river; and almost in the same breath he murmured the word "mother," tenderly, as though hi

ot forget why he was on

t he could keep watch over the camp, and particularly that portion of it where St

recumbent timber-cruiser that the other could

orian breathing arose into something approaching a snore, that sounded tr

would be nothing doing thus early in the night, his chances being better later on when the "greenhorn,"

, with young Dugdale still holding the fort,

ised his head and took a sweeping glance around, just as any woodsman might during the night, a habit born of eternal watchfulness; yet under the circumstances it was more or les

breathing, sometimes ending in a snort-if Stackpole was still awake and pretending sleep he

in extending his watch, he counted without his host, for Cuthbert