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@ You will share our gratification that, although 
Mr. Russell was denied his usual trip to the wil- 
‘derness, he was in a measure compensated by 
the pleasure he derived from collecting his 
data for the series of articles. As bearing on this 
we again quote from one of his letters: 
In this work I am especially fortunate in 
that I do not lack material, nor keen interest 
in the subject itself. I come of the stock my- 
self. Myson, Robert, is the seventh remove 
from Robert Russell, who, deported by Crom- 
well after the battle of Dunkirk, came to 
Salem, Mass., in 1654, and worked for his 
foothold in the true pioneer spirit. Up in 
northern New Hampshire, in a little hamlet, 
is the old homestead, tenanted at this moment 
by my father and my wife and children. Out 
under the elms are the graves of our little clan, 
settlers and pioneers every one, beginning 
with my maternal great-great-grand father and 
so on down the line. 
At present I am boarding six miles from 
Worcester, at a farm, the owner of which 
removed to Kansas twenty-eight years ago, 
pioneered it seventeen years in the wheat belt, 
and returned to save the home of his fore- 
fathers from decay. My nearest neighbor is a 
retired undertaker, ex-gambler and cigar- 
drummer, who has bought his house and six 
acres, raises squabs and hens, etc., and has 
brought the simple life to a working basis 
which gives him, so he tells me, “‘liberty, a 
living, a clear conscience and a h lofa 
good time’”’—and he hasn’t had a lonely hour 
in a year. 

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many of which are simply written to sell. True, 
_ we often get an unusually good feature from this 
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RECREATION would not be the magazine it is; 
in fact, we go hunting and fishing for un- 
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from fruitful. Rare is the mail that brings 
us joy in a tattered manila envelope, with 
postage due thereon, that we don’t already 
know all about. But we mustn’t dwell on our 
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the Sissiboo Waters in Nova Scotia 
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