meet before
reaching the coast.

From the Pelly River trader our travellers gained much valuable
information concerning the routes they might pursue and the difficulties
they had yet to encounter. They had indeed heard vaguely of the great
canyon of the Yukon, through which the mad waters are poured with such
fury that they can never freeze, of the rocky Five Fingers that obstruct
its channel, the Rink and White Horse rapids, and the turbulent open
streams connecting its upper chain of lakes; but until this time they
had given these dangers little thought. Now they became real, while some
of them, according to the trailer, were impassable save by weary detours
through dense forests and deep snows that they feared would delay them
beyond the time of the river's breaking up.

"What, then, can we do?" asked Phil.

"I'll tell you," replied the trader. "Leave the Yukon at this point; go
about fifty miles up the Pelly, and turn to your right into the Fox.
Ascend this to its head, cross Fox Lake, Indian Trail Lake, Lost Lake,
and three other small lakes. Then go down a creek that empties into the
Little Salmon, and a few miles down that river to the Yukon. In this way
you will have avoided the Five Fingers and the Rink Rapids, and found
good ice all the way. After that keep on up the main river till you pass
Lake Le Barge. There again leave the Yukon, this time for good by the
first stream that flows in on your right. It is the Tahkeena, and will
lead you to the Chilkat Pass, which is some longer, but no worse than
the Chilkoot. Thus you will avoid most of the rough ice, the great
canyon, and all the rapids."

"But we shall surely get lost," objected Phil.

"Not if you can hire Cree Jim who lives somewhere up on the Fox River to
go with you, for he is the best guide in the country."

So the next morning Phil and his companions again set forth, this time
up the Pelly River, with all their hopes for safety and a successful
termination to their journey centred upon the finding and hiring of Cree
Jim, the guide.

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

FLORA, QUEEN OF SUMMER.

A MEDLEY.

BY CAROLINE A. CREEVEY AND MARGARET E. SANGSTER.

_Characters._

BLANCHE HOWE, _President of the Ninepin Club_.
FELICIA DEFOREST, _Secretary of the Ninepin Club_.

_Members._

MORNA ROWLAND, LUCILLE TAYLOR, CHRISTABEL MASON, SOPHIA PRATT,
ANNETTE SIMPSON, HELEN FAIRCHILD, AGNES STOWE.

ALICE TROWBRIDGE, _a classmate, not a membe