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RECREATION. 



Can it be that this productive hillside 

 holds in its bosom a gold mine. We will 

 prospect at once, but as I make an excited 

 movement, in my enthusiasm, my nugget 

 takes to itself wings and flies away, as 

 many a golden possibility has done before 

 it, and my animated treasure proves to be 

 only a leaf-eating "gilded dandy" of beetle 

 aristocracy. 



The disaDDcaring sun warns us that 

 evening is coming, so we gaiher our weary 

 selves together and start homeward with 

 our great bundle of wildwood bloom, for 

 it is not well tor lone women to be astray 

 after nightfall in this village of curfews 

 and conservatism. As we cross the via- 

 duct the dismal moaning of the frogs 

 comes up to us from the valley below, like 



the wail of some despairing soul whose 

 past is wretchedness and whose future is 

 despair. Not a sound reaches us from 

 the hushed treetoos, which but an hour 

 ago were teeming with active life. No 

 winged creature is astir save the phan- 

 tom bats, Parting across the surface of the 

 Western crescent. Nature is onlv waiting 

 for our departure to ring out the lights, 

 and close the portals of day. With a shiver 

 at the mystery of night we wend our way 

 home, dreaming of Goethe's "Night 

 Song" : 



" Hush'd on the hill is the breeze ; 

 Scarce by the zephyrs the trees 

 Softly are pressed ; 



The wood bird's asleep on the bough ; 

 Wail then and thou 

 Soon shall find rest." 



SWAN RIVER, MONTANA. 



M. J. 



Two views of Swan river, Montana, are 

 here presented. These views were taken 

 near the University of Montana Biological 

 Station, and afford but a glimpse of the 

 beautiful scenery around that region, both 

 along the Swan river and Flathead lake. 

 The river is a fishing resort famous 

 throughout the region. It receives its 

 waters from the drainage of the Kootenai 



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and Mission mountains, flows through a 

 densely wooded valley between those 2 

 mountain ranges, and finally rolls through 

 a canyon in a series of beautiful rapids to 

 the Northern end of Flathead lake. 



One of the views presented shows the 

 lower end of the rapids where the river is 

 spanned by a bridge. On the right is the 

 outdoor laboratory of the Station. Be- 



AMATFUR PHOTO BY M. J. ELROD. 



BIOLOGICAL STATION, FROM THE BRIDGE. 



