WINTEK 



CHAPTER I 



HUNTING THE SNOW 



YOU want no gun, no club, no game-bag, no 

 steel trap, no snare when you go hunting the 

 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 

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

 country. 



You have shoveled the first snow of the winter ; 

 you have been snowballing in it ; you have coasted 

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

 have gone hunting over it you have missed the 

 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 

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

 muggy, cloudy day in August when the perch are 

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



