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MOOSE-CALLINQ. Ill t 



and the Imslics wliicli skirtctl a little lake in front of us, *,;' 



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 over \vlii«th liung a Htationaiy lino of mist, were painted -f 



with every hue, warmed and gilded at their sunnnits by i^. 



the slanting sun-rays. There was the deli(!ate rose-colour • 



varying to blood-red and deep scarlet, of the smaller ;vi 



maples, which are always brightest in swampy low situa- | 



tions, and the bright gohlen of the birches, poplars, and '( 



beeches. Sometimes a maple was wholly painted with ; 



the darkest (daret, whilst in another a branch or two >; 



were vermilion, and the rest of the foliage of vernal ]! 



greenness. '^\ 



The rank patches of rhodora were tinged with a li<rht /.! 



pinkish tint, a pretty contrast to the rich shining green ■• 



leaves of the myriea growing with the former slirult in 



damp spots. Thc^ flora of the fall, com])rising asters, 



golden rods and wild-everlastings were all out, encircling i 



the pearly grey rocks wliii-h strewed the bai'ren, ;ind 



every bush was wri'athed with lines and webs of litthi 



spiders, marked by the myriads of minute (lew-dro])S 



with which they were strung. Gradually warmed by 



the rays of the sun when, overcoming the surrounding 



barrier of the forest, they poured over the whole face of 



the scene, the little barren sparkled like fairy-land, the 



morning resolving itself into one of those glorious days • 



for which the fall of the year is noted ; days when the 



light seems to bring out colours on objects which you 



wouhl never see at other times; when all nature seems 



brightened up by the peculiar state of the atmosphere ; 



when the trees seem more beautiful, rocks more shapely, 



and water nioix' pellucid ; when the sky has a greater 



soitness and depth than c(mmionly, and one's own 



feelings are in unison with all around. f-, 





