OUTDOORS 



Down there to the left is a tamarack 

 swamp. Years ago I shot ruffed grouse 

 there, but the grouse are all gone from this 

 part of the country now. There are quite a 

 number of rabbits in there yet, and a few 

 owls. How dark the dense green of tam- 

 aracks shows against the lighter shades of 

 the surrounding woods ! The blue glint of a 

 jaybird's wings gleams in the branches here 

 and there, and woodpeckers and nuthatches 

 are numerous. Now to the lake again, and 

 we shall find a myriad of gorgeous dragon- 

 flies darting about the edges of the water. 

 That ripple extending out into deeper water 

 was where a bass or a pickerel slid away as 

 we came toward the lake. He was sunning 

 himself in the shallow water and our appear- 

 ance frightened him away. There's a frog 

 by the side of that stone. A bull-frog? No, 

 a meadow-frog. A bull-frog has a very much 

 darker color; this one is bright green with 

 dark spots. You have walked seven miles and 

 are not perceptibly tired. 



From this opening you can see across the 

 pasture, which is really a meadow. A spar- 

 row-hawk is poising high in the air, his wings 



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