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ever and always, shed their sweet fragrance on the air. The 
sun shining down upon us in such well sheltered situations, so 
warm and quiet, it is like another climate compared to the 
ridge’s top, and often if to determine as to the wind yet blow- 
ing, we must look above at the tops of the evergreens, or 
watch if the long, gray moss streamers hang quiet in the 
sunshine, or gaily wave and point at times steadily down to 
leeward. Sitting down to luncheon beside the little brook 
again, as often before, with its ever pleasant music in our 
ears, and in such harmony with all around us, we taste its 
waters pure and sweet, again and again, and cannot say it 
nay when its happy laughing music is ever calling us. 
And now as no unwary buck has had the audacity to 
intrude himself upon our quiet during the dinner hour, we 
look carefully, as we have many times already, -up and down 
the ravine and upon the upland beyond, and seeing no antlers 
pushing out toward us from beneath evergreens, in shady 
nooks or sunny spots, we now step over and leave behind our 
little mountain brook singing cheerily to the trees and the 
squirrels, and moving over the rise, cross the dry rocky run 
and climb the ridge, following it easterly for a long way. 
As the sun, which has been our warm friend and bright 
pleasant company, all the while with us until now, is reach- 
ing toward his wraps, we take the broad hint, and turning 
with much of his warm smile yet upon us, present our left 
cheek to him as we travel northerly through the open growth 
of hard woods direct to camp. 
Soon after this comes several days of cold and snowy 
weather, the snow drifting upon and sifting in and completing 
our bough banking around the camp walls, and through the 
night the fine hail is often pattering against our north and 
