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I.A PLUNGE DOWN THE RAPIDS.[7]
II.THE CAMP UNDER THE HEMLOCKS.[17]
III.COMRADES.[28]
IV.THE THREE SMOKE SIGNALS.[37]
V.THE FALSE CHART OF DUBOIS.[47]
VI.THE TIMBER-CRUISER.[57]
VII.OWL AND TIMBER WOLF.[67]
VIII.THE CALL OF THE WILD.[77]
IX.TRAPPER LORE.[84]
X.MAGIC IN THE BERRIES.[104]
XI.A BREAK IN THE CHAIN.[117]
XII.ON THE TRACK OF ELI.[127]
XIIIBIRDS OF A FEATHER.[137]
XIV.WITHOUT AUTHORITY.[152]
XV.SCENTS A MYSTERY.[160]
XVI.A LITTLE WITCH.[170]
XVII.SEEN THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR.[184]
XVIII.OWEN FINDS HIMSELF A PRISONER.[194]
XIX.FOR SO IT WAS WRITTEN.[204]
XX.THE TENT DWELLERS.[214]
XXIAT DEAD OF NIGHT.[221]
XXII.CONCLUSION.[231]

Canoe Mates in Canada

or

Afloat on the Saskatchewan


CHAPTER I.

A PLUNGE DOWN THE RAPIDS.

Kneeling in a "bullboat," fashioned from the skin of an animal, and wielding a paddle with the dexterity only to be attained after years of practice in canoeing, a sturdily-built and thoroughly bronzed Canadian lad glanced ever and anon back along the course over which he had so recently passed; and then up at the black storm clouds hurrying out of the mysterious North.