A SWINd AROUND VKRMONT 



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grandfather before him were trappers, as 

 will be his curly-headed son after him. 



Then, led by just such another dog as 

 Dave Galusha's venerable Tim, we went 

 over the mountain, and down through a 



name, to open up. It was not a good day 

 for hares. Meanwhile Chase and Jesse con- 

 versed in low tones of their warden ing, and I 

 snapped a picture of them intently listening. 

 We took home to Jesse's good wife only one 



DEER COUNTRY IN BENNINGTON COUNTY — MINUS THE DEER 



really beautiful little valley, long, long ago 

 deserted for fairer fields in the land of the 

 setting sun, till we came to the edge of the 

 swamp that hides the trout-brook where 

 Jesse's boy goes a-fishing. There we 

 stopped to enjoy the stillness and to look 

 at the surrounding mountainsides, while the 

 dog was tuning up his nose. We listened 

 long for the old dog, I have forgotten his 



hare, but we saw a rare winter sunset with 

 nothing intervening but the valley with its 

 spruces and its cedars, and the still moun- 

 tain beyond with its ghostly birches, and its 

 patchwork of blue hardwoods and snow- 

 whitened slashings. 



That night I went to Rutland, and Chase 

 returned to his home. And on Wednesday 

 by stage I journeyed eastward thirty miles, 



