26 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



point, for when flattened out on some half-sub- 

 merged log or stone, the animal is not to be made 

 out before he moves. Even when fishing, — and 

 in lonely quiet places he fishes in the daytime, — 

 although your eyes may be on the water, the vents 

 are got with such rapidity, that if you were not 

 fairly acquainted with the animal's ways you would 

 not know what you had got a glimpse of. 



If you wish to find out how quickly you can 

 get wet through without jumping in the water 

 or going out in a thunder-shower, crawl through 

 high grass with heavy night dews beading every 

 blade of it. I have been drenched summer and 

 winter, and have had my clothes frozen in that 

 hard time, but I never got so perfectly saturated 

 in so short a time as I did when crawling, with 

 snake -like caution, to crane my neck over that 

 pool. And when I got to it, to my mortification 

 and disgust, I could see nothing, not even a fish. 



The words "sick at heart" would about sum 

 up my condition then. As to moving, that never 

 entered my mind. There I lay, sprawled ,out, 

 thinking; and my thoughts were chiefly about "a 

 fool and his folly." 



