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vcd the young- were at a littlo rlistanc.c (n.iM 

 the mother, -as we took her to he; hut tiicy 

 were (piickly hrou-ht to her l,y .-, (h-ep atri.lu- 

 lous note, when she ohserved the approachin,- 

 hoat. She tlien lowered her Ixxly in the wa- 

 ter and the; younj;- secured se.its on the deck. 

 Wc then rowed rai)idly and the old hird dived, 

 and saw the youn^- disai>pear at the same 

 time, oa:h chick h;i,vino- evidently svi/A-d hold 

 of a feather. When the youn;- came to the 

 surface many yards away they w<^r<^ behind 

 the old bird, f,-om which I judjirethat the tail 

 leatliers ;ire uscid as tow I'opes. 



'I'he expression, to Uiu^rh like ;i loon, ,-,nd 

 silly as a loon, to;^etlier with the term, .:r;i/y 

 as a loon, are prol);i,l>ly ul| Iron, the peculiar 

 weird not(;s, which once heard are not easily 

 lor^rotten. '|\, ,ne the notes are ecstatic mus- 

 ic, rna.de so Iroui associations in many an 

 outing- at th(- edg-e (,r the crystal lakes of the 

 north. 



The Lo(,n is not n(M:essary to the fisher- 

 man, and is often considered a nuisance from 

 Its iish-eatingr habits. Nevertheless, it has a 

 rig-htonour lakes, [ think, as it was here 

 sometime before ag-|Lrressive man; and many 

 of the nature-loving- modern anglers have a 

 sentimental reg-ard for this weird, myst(;rious 



