TEOUT : 



MEETING THEM ON THE " JUNE RISE" 



BY 



"NESSMUK." 



There is a spot where plumy pines 

 O'erhang the sylvan banks of Otter ; 



Where wood -ducks build among the vines 

 That bend above the crystal water. 



And there the blue-jay makes her nest, 



In thickest shade of water beeches ; 

 The fish-hawk, statuesque in rest, 



Keeps guard o'er glassy pools and reaches. 



*Tis there the deer come down to drink, 

 From laurel brakes and wooded ridges ; 



The trout, beneath the sedgy brink, 

 Are sharp on ship-wrecked flies and midges. 



of the scores of mountain trout-streams that L 

 have fished, the Otter is associated with the most pleas- 

 ing memories. 



It is, or was, a model trout-stream ; a thing to dream 

 of. Haying its rise within three miles of the Tillage, 



