Jor: AND CRronir. OF 

‘be sure to take it with you when you go, and it will be there 
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for the fall outing ;’ and if you are a little rheumy and do not 
feel real strong and hearty, I will do the propelling, you shall 
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sit in the stern with your paddle and—— 
Just at this moment Joe was shut off rather suddenly. 
Cronie had been slowly cutting tobacco and filling the briar- 
wood during Joe’s earnest and prolonged harrangue, and 
while his attention is attracted to an old mother robbin red- 
breast that has a nest of young ones in the tree handy by, is 
tugging at a monstrous black headed angle worm, and Joe is 
much interested, a smile upon his face, lips apart, eyes wide 
open. Cronie carlessly scratches an orono match. Ncw 
although Joe’s head was turned to one side, the disagreeable 
brimstone which he positively abhors was wafted to, and 
curled ard gathered in his thick moustache most admirably. 
During his violent sneezing and coughing, crooked and indis- 
tinct words, Cronie escaped and began packing for the fish- 
ing trip. 
After tea they strapped the pole of the two wheeled calamity 
to the express wagon and hied them away just at the gloam- 
ing. It was a splendid night for the ride, the moon keeping 
them company from nine o’clock until it faded and was 
forgotten with the coming daylight, arriving at spring hill 
just in good time for cooking the breakfast. Spring hill isa 
cosy spot beside the main travelled road that runs through the 
forest within a few miles of their camp. <A fine cool spring 
of good water beside a pretty camping ground, where many 
hold up to make a cup of tea, feed their horses, eat their 
luncheon, or pitch their tent for the night. Breakfast over, 
and the horse having eaten his oats, his head, much to his 
dislike is pulled up from the short grass which he is cropping, 
