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stream. We pulled & pulled 
& pulled till we could hardly 
move against a 10 mile an 
hour current. "Chub" & Sid 
had the worst of it in the 
canvas canoe. It was 
ducidly late before we got sup-
per & went to bed.  

We broke camp next morn-
ing & Sid & I went over town & 
mailed cards & bought butter 
Such a measly town I never 
saw before.   

A short time after we 
left Portage two fellows 
that attend the U.W. overtook 
us in a duck boat. They 
had come from Green Bay 
& were going to the Mississippi