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Pretty soon we came to Beaver Chasm -- it's in the woods. Lots of times I saw it but I never went down in it. Once a couple of Scouts from camp told me there were rattlesnakes in it; I guess that was the reason. All the times I had been to it before I followed the brook from Black Lake. You can see how it goes on the map I made, not saying what kind of a map it is. I guess I'd get about six minus for it in school -- I should worry. Anyway Beaver Chasm is a deep place that the brook flows through. That brook starts away off some place or other and goes west through the chasm, then south into Black Lake. It takes a west southerly course -- gee, I remind myself of a geography lesson -- that's one study I have no use for.
Anyway you needn't bother about the brook now so you can let it flow merrily, merrily, what care we -- that's in my school reader. Do you see where the arrows are pointing? Where it says _Roy's route_ and _Through the woods_? Well that's the way the four of us went and you can see where we got becalmed near the Bagley's Green railroad station, only the map doesn't show where the wind went and anyway I don't know how to make a picture of the wind.