ON THE NYARLING 



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varies continually and is always beautiful. Every- 

 thing that I have said of the Little Buffalo applil 



the Nyarling with fourfold force, because of 

 varied scenery and greater range of bird and other 

 life Sometimes, like the 

 larger stream, it pn 

 long, straight vista of a 

 quarter-mile through a sol- 

 emn aisle in the foresl of 

 mighty spruce trees thai 

 tower a hundred feet in 

 heighl .all black wit h 

 gloom, green with health, 

 and gray with moss. 



onetimes its channel 



winds in and oul of open 



grassy meadows that are 

 dot t ed wi t h clumps of 

 rounded tp in an 



lish park. Now it nar- 

 rows to a deep and sinu- 

 ous bed, through alder 



rank and reaching that 

 they meet overhead and 



form a .-hade of golden 



n: and again it widens out into reedy lake-, the 

 summer home of countless Dud. I Tattlers 



. I Kill . Rails, Blackbirds, and half 

 a hundred of the lesser tril Sometimes the f< 

 ground is rounded m. kinnikinnik in snowy 



Bower, or again a far-strung growth of the needle 



