

WINTER 



CHAPTER I 



HUNTING THE SNOW 



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"% T OU want no gun, no club, no game-bag, no 

 j stee l trap, no snare when you go hunting the 4 

 * snow. Rubber boots or overshoes, a good, / 

 stout stick to help you up the ridges, a pair of field- \ 

 glasses and a keen eye, are all you need for this. v ? : ' 

 hunt, besides, of course, the snow and the open': 

 ; country. 



You have shoveled the first snow of the winter;^ 

 *V& y ou nave Deen snowballing in it ; you have coasted . 

 on it; and gone sleigh-riding over it; but unless youv 

 > have gone hunting over it you have missed the K 

 | rarest, best sport that the first snowfall can bring - 

 you. 



Of all the days to be out in the woods, the day ] 

 that follows the first snowfall is the best ? No, ^ \ 

 not the best. For there is the day in April when you ^ 

 go after arbutus; and there is the day in June^ 

 yi when the turtles come out to lay in the sand ; the v 

 muggy, cloudy day in August when the perch are { *. 

 hungry for you in the creek ; the hazy Indian Sum- ; ; 



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