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RECREATION 



home-made bread and butter little else 

 than our hairbreadth escape was men- 

 tioned. The scene had been burned in- 

 to our brains. It will always be fresh in 

 our memories. 



At Toronto Sunday morning, Octo- 

 ber 15, the writer bade farewell to the 



rying, scurrying crowds of human- 

 ity, jostling, pushing, now elbowing 

 their way through, again the sound of 

 its ever-clanging street-car bells, its 

 trucks, autos and cabs, twisting in and 

 out, here and there dodging each other ; 

 all this stood out in living contrast, with 





A BEAVER DAM 



boys and soon was moving New York- 

 ward, reaching there the following 

 morning much benefited in health, be- 

 sides an experience which could never 



the camp-life scenes from which I had 

 just traveled — the contrast seemed too 

 great to bear. For a moment I was 

 carried back. The call of the wild was 



have been gained through correspond- beckoning a return ; could I have then 

 ence, books or maps. Passing up and there been transported, if just for 

 Broadway, through the din of its hur- one night. 



