Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
ROM Kah-pee-kog to the moon is

| Il'ei 1Hean-and frazer sad the trl D was worth taking. Of course we knew the way by water, but all the pleasures of q summer vacation in the Muskoka district of. Canada is not to be found on the water. Dr. Clark insisted that he had discovered that fact when he
 tramped through from BarnesdaIe in search of the boarding house at Kah- pee-kog, which did not materialize
 Ut is pretty hard after one has | tramped over such country as this IS, and fought his way through un- derbrush, waded the creeks, climbed ovec the fallen logs, and had one's clot h. ing almost torn off, to find that you have been chasing rainbow. Had it not happened to me I should never have believed Barnes capabl of such misleading statements as he made, and when l sat on the bank of the lake and waited for that boarding house to ma l terialize, thought I should never for l give Barnes for misleading me, but have. I did so because I now realize what pleasure that tramp through | the woods was. As pleasure it comes 1 only second to catching big Kah-pee- 1 kog bass vote that. we go to the Moon by.wa of the trail"
 And we went that way. Yorker ob- l jected mildly at first, for he still had visions Of the tramp he had taken from of musky. There was one waiting for Us there, however; one that was large enough to make up for all those we did not catch. It tipped the scales at an even 49 pounds.
 Sure, 'tis a right smart of fish," said the old trapper in answer to our expressions of surprise. ''Tain't th' biggest 'un, thu. Have had 'em up to ,0. But this'n wuz bout all th' little gal could handle"
 We asked if child had caught it. 'Sure'n she did," he replied, point- tng a| che same time to stripling of a girl not over F years of age. ''Jist dropped this line an hook with a bull frog on th' end O it into tn water down at tn end O tn log jam an nailed him. Pretty nigh got away from her, she says, when he got under tn logs, but she held on an finally got him out"
 Any one of us would have given half a years salary to have caught that fish, but when we got back to Smith and Yorker we said nothing about it. It would have spoiled Smiths pleasure to have done so, for he had caught 12- pounder, and was as tickled as new boy with his first boots.
 q tell you what, fellows, it is real fishing when you get one like that at the end of your line. They are the boys that can put up the game. I got him just above the last falls. a little stretch of water between the larger falls that you saw from the ridge this morning and the smaller ones just below. If it hadn't been for Yorker I would have either gone over those falls or have lost the fish, for he made a straight shoot for them. and took canoe and all with him. My line tangled and I thought once I would have to throw rod and all over to save us from going over the brink, but Workers strong right arm kept us out of trouble until got my line fixed, and then had ali the sport anybody could ask for. Guess 1 have got your little 6H bass beat now. ullmark''
 Of course we admitted the fish and praised the luck of Smith, and kept Barnesdale to Kah-pee-kog in his quest for the same boarding house that had led Dr. Clark astray, but he finally consented.
 It is not an easy trail through that four miles of underbrush and logs, and rocks that leads from Kah-pee-kog to the Moon, nor is it frequently tray eled one, but then there is always an added charm to the doing of something that is out of the ordinary, and as for the ease on the trail it is fully com pensated for by the view that meets one when they stand at last on the high bluffs overlooking the beautiful river and see the water dashing over the great falls.
 There is not a prettier 26 miles of river in America than the MoOn," said an old trapper who had spent the better part of his life in the Muskoka district, to me one day as l floated down the canyon and portrayed my light canoe around the falls and rapids, and l fully agreed with him. II is pretty, but be- ware the man who attempts to descend it for the first time without the aid of a guide, for the falls and rapids sue ceed each other so rapidly that one is out of the placid water that sepa- rates them and into the whirling, tumbling falls before one realizes it. At the great falls, for instance, there is just above quiet little lake, so calm that all sense of danger is lost until the whirHng waters catch you between the high cliffs and send you crashing down over the rocks into another placid lake below. Expert canoeists might shoot the falls, but it is not wise thing for the amateur to try.
 Once on the banksof the stream the troubles of getting there were forgot ten, and we were all eager for try at~the muskys the stream was supposed to contain. Smith, in particular, was anxious to begin fishing, for he had made the trip with the expeeta- tion of landing that long lool1ed-for "big one" which Kah-pee-kog had not produced for him.
 He and Yorker started out together, Smith prophesying great catch be- fore their return. They headed for the falls half mile up the stream, while the rest of us under Frazer's guidance %,r tad far p41 ,s,