NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE 
Objects on 
the banks. 
Reflections 
by night. 
hind him, he will see his own shadow as well as 
that of the tree cast upon the water, but he 
will see no reflection. His friend, standing on 
the opposite bank of the pool and looking tow- 
ard him, will see no shadows, but in their place 
the reflections of man and tree. A canal in 
Amsterdam, with houses and trees on either 
bank, will often mingle shadows and reflec- 
tions, but to us it is merely a case of shadow on 
one side and reflection on the opposite side. If 
we stand in the centre of a bridge and look up 
the canal, we shall see little of either houses or 
trees in the water; we shall see only the long 
reflection of the sky. 
On the lake the strongest reflections are al- 
ways to be found under some overhanging bank 
or in the shadow of some thick-leaved tree ; and 
the darkest reflections of all are seen at night 
when the only illumination upon the water 
comes from the sky and the stars. Very beau- 
tiful are these night reflections seen from a 
boat. Years ago, when the lakes and streams 
of Minnesota were in their prime, and the great 
elms arched the sloughs winding from lake to 
lake, the canoe trail at night was picked out by 
the small spots of sky showing on the water 
like loopholes in the vast density of reflected 
