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commercialism — Fruit growing — Through Norfolk County 

 — Comparison with English fruit growing — Fruit preserving 

 — Cost of labour — Bees — Poultry — Cheese — Bass fishing on 

 Lake Erie — Rods and tackle — Niagara Falls — Gifts to 

 Manitou — A great national ulilit} — The mines of Ontario 

 — Official returns — Sudbury, Cobalt, and Porcupine — 

 Encouragement and warnings 



CHAPTER IV 



Algonquin National Park — Simcoe Lake — Barrie — Muskoka Lake 

 — The Great Forest — Primeval conditions — Cache Lake — 

 The hand of the spoiler — Conservators' report — Animal life 

 — Trout fishing on Cranberry Lake — Scientific and un- 

 scientific angling — Camping out — The Indian canoe — The 

 Corkscrew River — My guide — Beavers' dams — The beaver's 

 house — Co-operative labour — The romance of a monogamist 

 — Canoe Lake — Tlie Thunderstorm — Fishing lakes — Down 

 the Muskoka River — Battling with the rapids — Whisky Falls 

 — Deer and their habits — The Dolly Varden trout — Wet and 

 dry fly fishing — Fresh fish for supper — Lumbering, and injury 

 to trout streams — Befriending drowned-out campers — The 

 howling of wolves — The rush through the forest — A wary 

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CHAPTER V 



En route for French River— Pickerel Landing— The liouse on 

 the rock— Primitive simplicity— The fate of the skunk— The 

 Ojibwa Indian guide— Reversion to original type— Whisky 

 and deterioration — French River — Recollections of Champ- 

 lain — Trolling for bass and pike — A master of the knife — A 

 fight with the "tiger of the river "—Gaff versus rifle— The 

 indefatigable guide — The might have been — In camp — The 

 note of the whipoorwill — " The fretful porcupine " . . 75 



