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and a visit to the splendid waterfall, a sheer descent of about one hundred feet, overlooked by a circle of great fir-crowned cliffs. Our attempts to talk French caused much merriment. Then Dennis harnessed the horse, and the weary hours of another sleepless night brought us back to "Camp Cabineau." What with poor diet, frequent drenchings, and hard night travel, we both became ill, and for some days of the return trip even the excitements of the journey and the beauty of the surroundings failed to arouse enthusiasm. The late Mr. Rainsford Balloch kindly invited us to his house, so finely situated on the lower Madawaska, where we enjoyed a much needed rest. Bosser plainly intimated, when we returned the canoe, that he never expected to see us alive again. At Edmundston we found our own good birch canoe, and greatly was it needed, the reduction of our treasury reserve to sixty-one cents making railroad travel impossible. Fifty cents we spent in telegraphing home for some money, to be sent to Grand Falls, the remainder purchased a fifteen cent loaf of bread, a suitable discount being made for cash. So with light hearts and empty purses, we launched our stout birch and "shot" the Little Falls of the Madawaska. The big curling wave at its base broke over the bow, half filling the canoe, but no upset occurred. After a paddle by moonlight we tented and rested a day, Where the emerald waters of the famous Green River mingle with the amber colored of the St. John. Ere long, at Grand Falls, where funds awaited us, we partook of the first good meal we had tasted for a week.

What remained of the trip was less eventful, save for one incident, Arthur, who was quite expert in the water, and found the August heat oppressive, jumped from the canoe and swam through various