PAIR OF HERRING GULLS. "ALLOWED ME TO APPROACH" 



CHAPTER X 



AMID NORTHERN SPRUCES AND SEA-GIRT ROCKS 



Deep from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean 

 Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. 



Longfellow. 



WHENEVER, in making- a camera-hunting trip to 

 the north, I begin to see the spruces and balsams 

 with their pointed tops, I seem to enter a special 

 sort of holiday atmosphere. The landscape is full of " Christ- 

 mas-trees." They are characteristic of the north, and I am 

 conscious of being in a northern latitude. The air feels colder, 

 whether it really is so or not. Indeed, I can almost imagine 

 that the branches of the trees are laden down with snow, and 

 that it is the Christmas season. I associate these trees, too, 

 with the dearly loved mysteries of the migratory northern 



