WILDWOOD WAYS 



himself. But more than this, the builder 

 and riveter of this adamantine castle has 

 other use for his silken bands than to 

 bind stone or to weave himself a silken 

 garment against the damp weather at the 

 brook bottom. He is a fisherman as 

 well, and stretched between two stones 

 near by or perhaps hanging over the edge 

 of the larger stone on which he dwells is 

 his net, built funnel-form with the larger 

 .end toward the oncoming current, the 

 smaller closed with silken netting, all 

 carefully spread to catch tiny creatures 

 slipping down stream with the current, 

 on which the net-builder, castle-dweller, 

 may feed. These homely, home-building, 

 home-keeping fishermen lead an humble 

 and pious life compared with that of the 

 rakish, cannibalistic trout, and they have 

 their reward. Some day, before the spring 

 is very old, they will give up casting 

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