laughed Frank.

"Hey! That's a dandy, all right! See him jump, will you? Wow! He's all
of two pounds, and as strong as an ox! I hope the leader holds. It's
been frayed some by rubbing over rocks in the past. Please pick up that
landing-net and attend to the beauty, if I can coax him close enough,
Frank."

Frank landed not only that beauty, but several more, ere he wandered off
to do something else. Jerry kept on fishing until he could not get
another bite, by which time he had quite a nice string of the speckled
beauties.

"Perhaps enough for a decent meal; though if Bluff develops his usual
appetite, the rest of us would go hungry. I wonder if a fellow mightn't
have some luck up above the falls? Guess I'll make a shift to try," he
said to himself.

The last view he had of the camp showed him Reddy amusing Bluff by
making flying tosses of his rope and lassoing all sorts of objects, from
the hat on the head of the admiring witness, to something tossed up in
the air.

Jerry labored up the hillside until he finally came to where he could
look down at the water as it shot over the edge. It fell with a great
deal of noise, striking the rocks below in many places with terrific
force.

"Ugh! It would just about bang a fellow to pieces to drop over there,"
he remarked, commencing to move upstream, looking for a promising place