56 THE HIVE OF THE BEE-HUNTER. 
ural, as the water reflects them downwards, hiding com- 
pletely away their submerged trunks. The arrow-fisher 
now peeps in the nest of the wild bird from his little 
boat, and runs its prow plump into the hollow, that 
marks the doorway of some cunning squirrel. 
In fact, he navigates for awhile his bark where, in 
the fall of the year, the gay-plumed songster and the 
hungry hawk plunge mid-air, and float not more swiftly 
nor gayly, on light pinioned wings, than he in his swift 
canoe. 
A chapter from nature: and who unfolds the great 
book so understandingly, and learns so truly from its 
wisdom, as the piscator ? 


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a, The level of the Mississippi, at its ordinary stage of water. 
6, The height of the spring rise. ¢, d, The “dry lakes.” By ex- 
amination of the above drawing, an idea may be formed of the 
manner of the rises of the Mississippi. The observer will notice 
that when the water is at a, the lakes ¢ and d will be dry, afford- 
ing a fine hunting-ground for deer, &e. When the water is at 
6, the lakes are formed, and arrow-fishing is pursued. (See de- 
scription.) A correct idea may also be formed by what is meant 
by a water-line on the trees, indicating the last rise; the water- 
line will be formed of the sediment settling on the trees at the 
line 6, marked above. 
