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part of the country to the other and live out of
doors all the time. They use shelter tents sometimes but often they will
be away for a week with only one's pack and sleeping bag as protection
against the weather. I'm eager to try it for father says that it is fine sport.
He's been up in that country and says it is a sportsman's paradise. He
was farther west in the Lake St. John region, but it should be even
better farther east. So, Bill, get busy. Talk it up with father and write
me that you'll be with me.' That sounds good, don't it?" concluded Bill.
"It 'listens' very well," said Pud. "But, don't you let Professor Gary hear
you say 'Don't it' again or you'll get into trouble."
"Doesn't it. Doesn't it, you boob," said Bill impatiently. "Mr. Shields
told us a good one this morning about a boy who would write 'I have
wrote' instead of 'I have written.' The teacher kept him in after school
one day and made him write it out one hundred times. The teacher was
called from the room and the boy got through his task. He waited a few
minutes but as the teacher did not return, the boy wrote a note as
follows. 'Dear Teacher, I have wrote "I have written" one hundred
times. You have not came back so I have went home.'"

"Ha, ha, ha!" roared Pud. "That's a good one, but to get down to cases,
are you really going up to Canada with Bob?"
"I am if I can get father and mother to let me go," replied Bill.
"Well, I'll see what I can do, for I think that a month or six weeks up in
those Canadian woods would make me real husky."
"You, real husky," said Bill in a commiserating tone. "I suppose that
you're not as hard as nails and nearly two hundred pounds in weight.
Now, don't get in wrong at home by telling them that you would like to
go to Canada to get husky. That would be no reason at all for you to go
there. Tell them anything you like but that."
"I'll see them to-night and let you know to-morrow," said Pud.
The two boys then separated, Pud to go in to get his baseball suit and
Bill to go out to the diamond, as he already had his suit on. Both boys
were members of the school team. Bill was now the best player in the
school, having made quite a reputation in scholastic circles as a pitcher.
He was the captain of the team, which shows better than anything else
how he had developed since first we met at Camp Pontiac's Junior
camp.
Pud was waiting for Bill the next morning at the school gate.
"I'm going, I'm going!" cried Pud, as soon as Bill appeared.
"That's fine," said Bill in rather a gloomy tone.
"What's the matter?" asked Pud. "Don't they want you to go?"
"I'm not sure," said Bill. "Father is willing, but mother is making a big
fuss. She's almost as bad as she was before I went to Pontiac."
"Gee, that's bad. I don't think they'll let me go unless you go," said Pud,
and he too looked as if he had just lost his best friend.
"I'll just bet that your father persuades your mother to let you go," said

Pud. "He did the other time, you know."
"Yes, that's so, but he told me as we walked down to school this
morning that there really was some danger in such a trip as we planned
and that he did not feel that he should persuade mother to let me go. He
said that if he did and then something happened that he wouldn't have
an excuse," said Bill.
"That's so," said Pud in a hopeless voice. "I guess it's all off, then, and I
was counting on having such a fine summer."
"It's not all off. I'll have a chance to talk to mother this afternoon and
I'll show her why she should let me go," said Bill.
"It's not so dangerous, is it?" asked Pud.
"No, of course not," replied Bill. "Mr. Waterman, the head of the camp,
told me that he was always careful and that unless one got careless or
foolhardy that there was little real danger. He said that they got tipped
over now and then and were sometimes temporarily lost, but that these
things only lent spice to the summer and were the things remembered
in after years."
"He's right," said Pud. "Well, I hope that you can get your mother on
your side for my parents did not raise any objections."
"It's going to help me tell mother that you're going and that