68 SUNSHINE AND SPORT 



in their early stages than trout. The price of 

 "fingerlings " is ten cents (5d.) apiece, so that their 

 introduction on a large scale is an expensive 

 undertaking. 



The only sporting birds of any account, in 

 addition to the ruffed grouse and wild turkey, are 

 migratory duck on the lakes, flocks of which pitch 

 there on the spring and autumn passage between 

 their winter quarters on the Gulf of Mexico and 

 breeding haunts on the shores of Canadian lakes. 

 One evening on Fairfield we put up a flock of blue- 

 billed duck, that may have numbered a couple of 

 hundred, but they wheeled high overhead and 

 dropped again at the farther end of the water 

 without giving a shot. 



" Land of the Sky," it is well named. Even at 

 the foot of its mountains we seemed to be at the 

 top of things. The air is rare and exhilarating. 

 The waters show those signs of hurry that belong 

 to water in high places. The vegetation displays 

 a vigour unknown at lower levels. " Sapphire 

 country," it is at every glance. Sunrise and sun- 

 set may send shafts of gold and crimson across 

 its blue, but at other times the tint of sky and 

 water alone mingles with the hundred greens of its 

 wild, luxuriant vegetation. 



