Book/Printed Material Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and discovery
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Image 1 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and d… /Jtil- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 5 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and d… Great Bear Island- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 9 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and d… TO THE BEST FELLER I KNOW AND TO JOHN AND BABE WHO TAKE AFTER HER- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 11 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … CONTENTS CHAPTER I Marching Orders PAGE 1 II Up River 13 III First Days and a Fish! 31 IV Lunge Lake and the Time OF Waiting 54 V A Rescue 76 VI The Great Bear! 89 VII Reservationers Again 102 VIII The Keep and the Mound 117 IX The Twenty-Two 130 X The Bear’s Head 145 XI Museum and Fortress 160 XII The Beginning…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 12 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XVII Out of the Labyrinth 228 XVIII The Boom Once More 240 XIX Down-River 250 XX Almost the Last 271 XXI The Last 285 viii- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 13 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … ILLUSTRATIONS “You Wan’ One, Too?” He Asked. Frontispiece PAGE “Camp cots! Tents! Pots! Grub? Lots We’re the Ancient Order of the Argue-nots 30 Another Hour and they were through the Second Layer 95 Three of the Canoes were half filled with the Panic-stricken already 155 Ninny was swimming like some Great Hunted Sea -otter 167 Back into Safety 200 They cached those Priceless Mound…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 14 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and …- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 15 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … Great Bear Island CHAPTER ONE MARCHING ORDERS T was a warm, close evening in mid- July. In the “Club,” Bert, otherwise “Booky,” Gordon, sat hunched over that first of Smithsonian publications. Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. From time to time he tenderly lifted an axe- head, or rubbing stone, or a little dirt- brown pot from the cabinet beside him, and raptly compared…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 16 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND The Club had once been Doctor Gordon’s old driving shed. But since Christmas it had been lined with weather-felting and heated by a big box stove. It had been equipped with home-made “gym” mat- tresses, and furnished from the combined Gordon, Emmett, Tuttle, and Harrison attics and book-shelves. Those Indian relics that “Booky” was once more so fondly classifying came from…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 17 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … MARCHING ORDERS to do things, when they felt in every yearn- ing bone that if only they could get another chance at it they could find mounds and bring back treasure-trove worthy of a Smithsonian Report itself such a second expedition was the one thing there seemed no prospect of their being able to make for the next five years. It was out of…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 18 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND Booky put down the battered old volume, and again he sighed immeasurably: “Say! Say, Toolsy! Tools sighed with him: “Yep, old man?” “Say, imagine finding something like the Serpent Mound up there!” “Or Fort Ancient! And, jimmy-o, one night last week I dreamed the four of us had got up there again somehow, and we’d located a mound that you could…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 19 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … MARCHING ORDERS cruel stupidity that had accused him of starting the great fire of 1910 had so fright- ened him that he had ended by fleeing, terror-stricken, into the north woods. And there he had become the “wild man.” How he had been living during those last three years, no one knew. No tale had come down to Wantebec of what he must have…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 20 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND had been leading him to leave the semi- safety of his haunts in the woods. Every week or two he had been making his appear- ance about the spruce cutters’ shanties at Loggers’ Inlet. And the spirit of “new journalism” in the Wantebec Herald had been seizing upon him as the most attractive of humorous material. Uncle Billy Mc- Leash, who…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 21 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … MARCHING ORDERS “which, as it happened, had just been loaded with peas and salt.” The week after, as told in the Herald another spruce- camp worthy “Cash-down” Corkery had celebrated the Fourth by getting “the world’s only genuine, stamped-in-the- bottle wild man” to trade him his entire year’s take of peltries for six boxes of safety matches that wouldn’t strike. It was that week,…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 22 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND through a window, and, as the Herald s humorist told it, he “had left a trail of screeches and broken glass and blood behind him, that you could follow half- way round the lake!” The boys did not read those stories at all. There may have been others who read and laughed at them. But what is certain is that there…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 23 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … MARCHING ORDERS and back, and back to the shanties like this It’s because it was somewhere there- abouts that he met the boys last summer, and was shown the only Christian kindness he’s had in the last three years! And now this summer he has some wretched, crack- brained hope of finding them up there again.” “There doesn’t seem much doubt of that,” said…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 24 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND Meanwhile those two younger Argonauts of the Four, still holding down the Club alone, had let their minds go hankering back to that subject of subjects once more. Again Booky had set down his Indian pot. He had had still another idea. “Say, if we hit it for South Falls, too, and all of us put in a month on the…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 25 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … MARCHING ORDERS work is our only chance at another high school term in the fall, and Bud and I are both tell- ing ourselves we’re dead lucky to get it.” “They’re the real old stuff, all right!” “They’re good enough for me. They wouldn’t do any kicking if they had it twice as hard.” And then once more, and for perhaps the twentieth time,…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 26 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND “We want you boys,” he said, “Jack Harrison and Bud Tuttle along with you, to get ready to go up to Lunge Lake again!” “And this time,” said the doctor, “we want you to bring Ninny Noggins down with you!” 12- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 27 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … CHAPTER TWO UPRIVER! ^HE doctor had joined in that most breath-taking of marching orders; but it must be said that so far the judge seemed to be supplying the major part of the confidence. “But but we must remember,” said the doctor, “that the sheriff Hynes, you know failed when he went up there and tried to get hold of him.” “That was because…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 28 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND all summer and once they do, why, I don’t believe they’d have to do much more than make a place for him in the stern of their boat and turn back down-stream!” “All right. All right. I’m sure I’m heart and soul in favor of their chancing it.” Meanwhile both Tools and Booky still sat speechless. They wanted to be abso-…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 29 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … UP RIVER It was well that Booky’s father was there, or he might have had a piece snapped out of him as well. As it was: “Do you think, young man,” said the judge, “that we haven’t thought about that? I’ll see that they don’t lose any money by it. I’ll provide for the matter of any fees that they’ll be needing.” “With my…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 30 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND in the shade of that South Falls board- ing-house. Within five minutes he and Booky were speaking to them. And by the end of another five minutes every- thing was settled! It was somewhat sobering, of course, to have been given that mission of finding and bringing Ninny back. In one way it was not exactly the same as going up…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 31 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … UP RIVER rise till dewy eve, and when they had found Ninny it mightn’t be the best wisdom in the world to try to rush back with him at once. Take it altogether, they would very probably have all the time up river that they needed. “Only remember,” he added, “Ninny must always be the first consideration.” They gave him their word for it.…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 32 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND moter” who had never deceived any one but his own unquenchably sanguine self. And at that, too, one lobe of his brain managed to preserve a steady and unlooked- for balance which always kept him in a state of serai-prosperity, at least. A few months before when the promise of car shops for North Wantebec and a furniture factory for Mill…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 33 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … UP RIVER resort There will come a time, gentlemen, (if you allowed the major to talk to you long enough for him to get his hands clutched together under his coat-tails, he always ended by addressing you as “gen- tlemen”) “and it will be here before we realize it, when those Lunge Lake islands will be at once the summer home of Greater Wantebec…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 34 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND of the proper authorities at Washington. For, without giving you all my reasons for so thinking, gentlemen,” he concluded im- pressively, “it would not in the least surprise me if the small but remarkable mound which you have already located should prove to be the first of further discoveries ranking among the most extraordinary ever made upon this continent.” Two days…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 35 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … UP RIVER which, she possessed a system of lockers, big and little, bow, stern, and amidships, that were, taken together, only a little less commodious than a wardrobe trunk, and, taken singly, rather more fascinating than a chest full of secret drawers. With the idea of filling those lockers to the best advantage, the four were now nightly resolving themselves into a commit- tee…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 36 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND Whereupon the judge remembered that, when as a boy he had run away to sea from Gloucester, he had been amazed at the filling and sustaining powers of pilot biscuit, and he now insisted upon sending to New York the same day for twenty -five pounds of them. “Not a word now!” he shut them up. “You’ll find that properly soaked…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 37 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … UP RIVER taking their bass rods; and if the waters of the Upper Wantebec and Lunge Lake didn’t do their share towards keeping the pantry full, they had fallen off greatly from what they used to be! It was also to lose sight of the fact that Jack was taking the “Twenty -two,” the one weakness of that otherwise rather serious and grown-up-minded youth.…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 38 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND that gives her her value. She teaches a fellow to shoot free arm.” Enough that we have shown that the “Twenty-two” could boast of qualities possessed by no other gun on earth. It had been no more than her just deserts that had made her one of the Club’s veritable mascots. And old Job Johnson, the ancient river-man who kept the…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 39 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … UP RIVER without denial to accept several pounds of his own. One might infer from old Job that you might find yourself in the bush without food, roof, or sense of direction, but if you only had an axe, a fishing line, and six-inch spikes enough, it would be merely a matter of a day or two till you were living in a hotel…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 40 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND knickers by the simple and inexpensive method of shearing off their first old “longs” at the knees, banding them up, and attach- ing belt straps; and remarkably good knickers they made. But there was still the bulk of their stuff to get together. In the matter of a tent, they settled on Booky’s new one, though it was a little smaller…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 41 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … UP RIVER find we’ll have to have photographs of it!” In that conscientious and scientific atti- tude he was strongly supported by Booky. The photographer also took along a box of magnesium flashes because they might make their find at night.” This on the face of it was improbable, and just why it should have been necessary to in- clude therewith a cone of…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 42 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND friendship if nothing else would. For let no one think the real purpose of the expedi- tion was forgotten. First, last, and always, it was going to be Ninny first! By Wednesday morning they were ready. They got away about half -past ten. The Twenty-footer had been loaded in the quiet slip beside old Job’s boat-house, and for the last time…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 43 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … UP RIVER pitched little Red Astrachan, “you. see to it that that son of mine, Bert, there, does an extra share of the rowing. He’s not sitting on an Archaeological Report at the present moment, is he? I can see plainly that you’re going to be the leader. You make that young bookworm work.” Booky thought of what was in that for- ward locker,…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 44 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND Following the triple report, and almost like a series of reports itself, went up the new Club yell: Camp cots Tents! Pots! Grub? Lots I We’re the ancient order Of the Argue-nots And they were off! To the town at large, it was simply a fishing trip. No one outside of their own people knew they intended going above Ragged Rapids.…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 45 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and …- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 46 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and …- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 47 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … CHAPTER THREE FIRST DAYS— AND A FISH! HEAD of them stretched the five winding miles of river and the crooked length of Eleven Mile Lake, which together were to make up the first day’s schedule. It was a good long run, but the fresh morning sun was not too hot, and from behind them there came a glorious, snapping breeze, which almost neutralized the…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 48 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND had several weeks ahead in which to try themselves; and in the case of Booky, his palms had begun to pink up noticeably already. When Jack saw that, contrary to the doctor’s instructions, he made Booky and Tools drop their oars for awhile. Tools shipped the rudder and steered, and Bud, with Jack stroking, rowed pairs. But all the while that…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 49 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DA YS with a sail stretched between, and to “step” those masts, all they had to do was to drive their butts firmly down among the remaining rolls of bedding. In ten minutes that blanket was straining and bellying as if it had been intended for such lateen service from the beginning. They were ascending Eleven Mile hand over fist, with- out even…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 50 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND such intention in view when he had loaded his particular locker in the stern sheets, for he had left one of their new sixty-yard lengths of good fine-wove cotton twist almost at the top of it. There was precious little likelihood, of course, of their catching anything with the troll in Eleven Mile; its reputation was gone for everything but bass…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 51 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DAYS believe that Half-Mile Carry would be only an incident. They would do that famous portage between breezes it would merely give them an opportunity to get the kinks out of their legs, and then they’d go right on to Loon Chute before supper. “Booky,” said Tools, “dig a book out of the library and read us something. I’ll hold the troll for…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 52 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND the monster did not seem in the least afraid of them. According to the stories told by old fishermen, when a ’lunge gets lost,” he takes this method of finding himself, which is a geographical improbability on the face of it. In any case this father of ’lunges was showing neither hurry nor anxiety, and the Twenty -footer passed so close…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 53 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DA YS his still-spinning spoon somewhere over that ring of ripples, and four pairs of eyes watched it achingly. As noiselessly as he could, Jack got his oars in again. With the sail down, something must be done to keep the line up. As it was, for a moment that glinting nickel dropped out of sight. An- other five seconds another two would…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 54 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND “As long as he doesn’t get any slack!” came from Tools. “Fasten your reel to a thwart or something!” And with that, twenty-five yards behind them, there was a surging whoosh Four feet almost five of mottled, watery olive-green shot bow-like into the air; for one dazzling moment showed white as it turned half over, and then struck the water flat…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 55 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DA YS Booky gasped and gasped again, as if the water had closed over him along with the fish. He got another jerk, and another. It was like holding the handles of a battery “Play him! Play him!” Jack swept the Twenty-footer around with a swashing roll. She answered to the paddle like a birch-bark, or they would have had no chance at…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 56 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND from the oars, what punishment were they not receiving now He said nothing. For minute after minute he tried to pull a little line in. And now he gained a foot, now lost it in that choking tug-of-war. But the strength of the monster its very fury was plainly beginning to go to his nerves, like some kind of watery buck…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 57 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DA YS going to split the paddle blade. And shov- ing his jaw out, Jack held the line where it was. Good as they knew that cotton twist to be more reliable than any silk for a long battle he did not venture to make his fight under that double tension. But this, at any rate, the quarry seemed to realize: the Sunken…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 58 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND suits me all right. I feel as if I needed a few minutes to get on to his curves!” The great fish was towing them And though it must be said that the wind was with him, too for a hundred yards he kept it up indomitably. “Say,” said Jack, “I like you. If I was a ’lunge you’re just the…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 59 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DAYS For a moment he had to give line. But it was only because his fingers, feeling as if they were cut half through already, wouldn’t admit of his doing anything else. Yet, whatever advantage their fish might have taken from the bass-weed, he had turned and was breaking for the breadth of the lake again. And every minute he was fighting like…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 60 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND “Oh, lordy!” he said. “Oh, skids! But I’m not giving him anything And he braced himself anew and tried un- happily to set his teeth. Great Eli Say, how long does this sort of thing generally last?” “I’ve heard of it lasting two hours,” said Jack. “Sometimes three or four.” Again the fish went about the line ripped the water into…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 61 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DA YS But “Me next!” said Tools, with the courage of him who has not as yet had his experience. “And I’ve got a little idea, too.” In his turn he had found his way to the stern. “Sure! What’d Toolsy be without his ideas!” “I’m going to kneel. It’ll let me be high enough to to sort of see things.” “Anything to…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 62 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND But there was really no great cause for alarm. The water, as they forthwith had the best of proof, was not three feet deep. Tools came up, spurted out about a quart of it, and, gurgle upon gulp, swallowed almost as much more. And this, too, could be said to the credit of that man of “ideas”: not for an instant…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 63 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DAYS within a few inches of the surface. There was a little bass-weed here and there but nothing that that ’lunge could take hold of. He could not even give full vent to his rage by jumping now. The best he could do was to flop about from time to time on the surface like a gravelled salmon. The shoaler it got, the…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 64 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND kills a big fish without spoiling him for mounting. They got him into the boat, and hoisted the sail again, and started once more for the head of the lake. Booky looked at his watch. He had looked at it before when they were leaving Fish Island, and they knew, or could calculate, just about how long it had been between…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 65 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DAYS The shore line was gradually becoming rougher and wilder. Great masses of gran- ite rose among the young cedars. And ragged, bleaching stump ends overhung the water. At about half-past four they rounded the last point, and there, standing up ahead, bone- white and unmistakable, were the three girdled trees which marked the beginning of Half Mile Carry. Two minutes more and…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 66 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND of “ma’sh” could hardly be distinguished now, for the masses of maidenhair and lilies of the valley and blue-eyed grass which covered it. They came out in the little clearing above the Upper Rapids, startling a kingfisher into clucking fits. But they stopped only long enough to roll out the contents of those blanket packs and emit a long hilarious whoop;…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 67 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DAYS “Oh, I don’t know,” said Tools, “I think we had some exercise that was a mighty sight huskier!” And, as it was, once the Twenty-footer was resting easily in her proper element again, they were quite ready to flop down among the withered May apples beside the remainder of their goods and chattels again. The sun was dropping low. Loon Chute was…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 68 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND more along shore to have lasted them a year. But, as good foresters, they didn’t spread their fire around. Jack fixed up the ’lunge. It was out of the question, even with the appetites they had by now, to eat it all. And the smoking process, as far as the meat was concerned, was not any epoch-marking success. But it was…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 69 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … FIRST DAYS the thousand night sounds of woods and water from being too weird and lonesome. And through the woods the rapids below them murmured ever more and more sleep- ily. In time even the wondering stars, looking serenely down upon them, could no longer keep them out of dreamland. And so ended their first day on the river. 53- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 70 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … CHAPTER FOUR LUNGE LAKE AND THE TIME OF WAITING S PACE lacks to tell the whole story of that week’s journey up the Wantebec. Mile after mile of free river made in record time! Portages taken on the trot! Bass that tested their rods even as that ’lunge had tested their trolling tackle! Night after night spent in the flush and glow of their…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 71 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … L UNGE LAKE passed the muddy West Branch, and found herself in the waters of the Upper Wantebec. They were pulling past the Old Shanties, their seventy-mile mark, when they made out some one above them coming down the river in a canoe. It was Uncle Billy McLeash, as they guessed at once. We have said that Uncle Billy carried a fort- nightly mail…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 72 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND them from your expairience up there last year!” “Why,” said Jack, “they didn’t hurt us such a much.” But Uncle Billy’s worri- ment was a little catching. “What’s got them now?” “Them free-traders has got them!” “Free-traders,” it may be explained, are gentry who make it their business to intro- duce illicit liquor into the spruce and lum- ber bush. “I…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 73 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … LUNGE LAKE staring, as he remembered some new phase of the disaster. “I’ve promised boss Halle- well to say nothin’ about it down to Wante- bec. For the boss has hoofed it overland to Macadac Mills to try to get some new men before it’ll get knowed about. I’ve promised not to tell down to Wantebec,” he recollected; “but that ain’t any good reason…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 74 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND wouldn’t. And still repeating his warnings, Uncle Billy pushed out and down river once more. They assured themselves, too, sev- eral times over, that that outbreak in the spruce shanties needn’t make any difference as far as they were concerned. Had there been no such outbreak, of course, they would have run into the shanties, as they passed, to ask for…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 75 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … L UNGE LAKE team work, they could spread the canvas, chop and notch the poles, and have the whole lifted and covering their sleeping- bags with almost the swift, machine-like precision of firemen handling a life net. One night, when it rained a little, that came in very handily too. And every day seemed to give them better fishing. The bass were of such…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 76 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND ever. But they saw fit to take it decidedly into consideration when at last their next day’s pull must take them into Lunge Lake. Along its west side, from a point four miles below the Narrows, to where it emptied into the river at the lake’s extreme northern end, stretched the territory of the Chippewa Reservation. On the east side, and…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 77 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … L UNGE LAKE felt that they could do it without any moon at all. Once in the lake itself, they could be of easy minds. To say nothing of its hundred intermingled islands, Lunge Lake possessed as many little crooked points and twistings and involutions as the roots of an old pine stump. Without eluding the acuteness of Ninny’s animal-like instincts, by camping in…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 78 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND they lay as still and lifeless as if they had been deserted for a hundred years. And an hour after sunrise the boys established themselves at the head of a deep, fiord-like bay about a mile to the north. Though the shore was open enough in other directions, between them and the shanties there was a dense growth of cedars. And…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 79 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … LUNGE LAKE And during the first day they did little more than get things set up, and sit about their camp and wait. They saw nothing of him. But to balance that they saw nothing of the “rampagers.” Again and again, however, through the day, and till all hours of the night, there came up to them the sound of uproarious shouts and yells…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 80 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND either of decayed pine stump or of solid rock. It was not long until Jack had had enough of it for that day. Following his instincts as guardian and provider for the party, he made an examination of their oatmeal tin, and their two sides of bacon, one of which had been half used already and went forth with a box…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 81 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … L UNGE LAKE They had heard something like that before. Jack did get a gray squirrel, though. And an uncommonly good stew that gray squirrel made. But in the afternoon, and the morning, and the afternoon again that followed, he got nothing else of any sort. Plainly the peerless weapon was not living up to its reputation. None the less, when, next day, Jack…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
- Date: 1911
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Image 82 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND town of white people, had its good elements and its bad. The old people were quiet, and law-abiding enough. And they at- tempted, too, to give the law to the second generation. But among the young men there were a considerable number who had no intention of taking law from any one. They boasted that they had never worked. They followed…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 83 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … LUNGE LAKE they gallantly explained it now to the four Argue-nots,” “You say want ’em, old man Chippeway and old mother squaw make ’em heap quick for Satu’day.” When they received no orders, they de- manded tobacco. Jack told them flatly that they didn’t use it. “Tha’s a lie!” they answered pleasantly. And then, in the pure brazenness of their numbers, they began to…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 84 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND party should be coming back at some time in the future. When the Four did finally see the last of them, they were ready to burst. And a few minutes later it was discovered that a box of gimp hooks and two trolling lines were missing. Let’s go out on the water and try to get cool,” said Jack; anyway, after…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 85 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … LUNGE LAKE The risk seemed a justifiable one. And that day they began to re-explore the major’s archipelago. Covering perhaps two miles square in the center of the lake, that Chautauqua-to- be formed one unbroken, interlocking laby- rinth and as the “labyrinth” they were soon to speak of it. Frequently what had appeared to be three islands turned out to be half a dozen.…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 86 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND shaded “blind channels” which they had already come to call the “labyrinth,” when suddenly the mighty, dark-green head of that pillaring conifer seemed to rise almost above their heads. In front of them were two steep little headlands of bush-crowned granite, with only an eight-foot lane of water between them. They punted through, turned a rocky shoulder, and saw that it…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 87 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … LUNGE LAKE good one. Those granite shores rose so sheerly sometimes to twenty -five feet, and scarcely anywhere to less than eight or ten and they had been polished so smooth by centuries of spring floods, that only at one place at the back did it seem possible to scale them. And there were other islands in the “laby- rinth” hardly less interesting. Needless…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 88 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND Loggers’ Inlet than their camp itself. It was about as near, in fact, as they had ever ventured to go. Yet it was quite as com- pletely hidden from the shanties. It always gave them a good hour’s sport. It was the nearest of the good fishing places, and they had several times gone out there to catch their next morning’s…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 89 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … LUNGE LAKE growing louder and louder; it was rising to whoops and halloos. They’re certainly feeling good over something. Maybe now would be a good time to get information.” “They might be able to tell us ex- actly where we could put our hands on him.” But the next minute was to tell them that. High over all that shouting hilarity there rose a…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 90 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND Even as they sat there, hesitating, that first terrified bellowing went up into a tortured, barking shriek. The shouts and roars of delight grew only the wilder. But they were broken now by sounds of strug- gling, of men falling and others rushing to their assistance. And then, upon a sudden, amid a general yell of triumph, that tor- tured barking…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 91 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … L UNGE LAKE Yet they brought her swirling around the cedar-covered point of the Inlet at last. And then the whole scene revealed itself within a stone’s throw of them. 75- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 92 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … CHAPTER FIVE A RESCUE 7T was Ninny! His hair and beard had been close cropped, which kept them from being sure at first. In fact, one of the gang was still holding a pair of huge camp shears above his head. But those old lynx skins and cast off lumber- jack clothes could cover no one else. And now he was writhing at full…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 93 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … A RESCUE And at that moment some of the gang caught sight of the Twenty-footer. “Well in the name o’ Pat!” The first to find his voice was the dark-faced Cash- down” Corkery; and “Cash-down” also there was no mistaking. “An’ where did youse come from?” “We come from up above! And, ah, what are you doing to Ninny there?” All the boys seemed…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 94 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND always, he was torturer-in-chief thrust a gagging bottle into the open mouth. “Let up, now! Let up!” cried the boys, in an agony. “You’ll hear about this down in Wantebec!” “Ah, we’re seein’ to it that he don’t get enough to hurt him!” bawled “Cash- down” again. “Give him some more, Bateeste “Yah, I tal yo’,” hiccuped a lanky Swede known…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 95 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … A RESCUE what happened to them, the boys started their boat for shore. At that moment Irish Mike, big and beaming, mop-haired, and irresponsible as ever, came out of the woods to the right of the shanties. “Hay, what ye at with Ninny now? Wasn’t robbin’ the poor lad of his hair an’ whisk Gobs! an’ where did the bhoys an’ skiff drop from?”…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 96 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND “Cash-down” himself now went heavily to the gravel. “Kill the beggar! Lay him out with a rock!” But it was too late. The whole clump rolled down the bank like a pack of hunting dogs trying to fasten upon a bear but their hold was broken. Ninny rose with one of them still clinging upon his shoulders. But an instant later…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 97 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … A RESCUE come with most breath-taking suddenness. They had no time to think. They only saw that he was as he had been the year before, big and ragged, immense of sinew, yet childlike in his weak-wittedness. But he was in their keeping now, and if need should be, they were going to protect him with their lives! “Ninny’s a good feller!” he breathed,…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 98 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … GREAT BEAR ISLAND In the minds of those four breathless Argue-nots” there was a single thought. They could not even had they had all their belongings packed and ready for an im- mediate run south and home they could not risk trying to pass the shanties again at once, or as long as the gang were watch- ing for them; but by making use…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 99 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and … A RESCUE the Twenty -footer, to see that Ninny stayed with them as if he never intended to leave them more. Everything in the boat, and with room only for Jack and Tools at the oars, they pulled out of their bay again. It was barely in time to escape the first of those madly pursuing spruce camp craft. It was fortunate for the…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
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Image 100 of Great Bear Island : a boy's story of adventure and… GREAT BEAR ISLAND to pull themselves out again. At the end of it, too, the gang did seem somehow to have got back into open water, and for the time, the astounded echoes heard no more of them. The Twenty-footer found those two little headlands which had led them into “Port Arthur the first time. She passed through into the harbor, struck two or…- Contributor: Fogarty, Thomas - McFarlane, Arthur Emerson
- Date: 1911