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been reformed in the ring, and had then 

 taken to the road as a tramp. Probably he 

 had been a pedestrian. 



"Hello!" he said, 'We-footed, eh? Tell 

 you what to do. Double tap them shoes of 

 yours — that'll fix you up all right." 



I had about given up my dreams of Ten- 

 nessee. Middle Pennsylvania seemed far 

 enough South. But I grasped at the idea of 

 thick soles. It was five miles to a cobbler — 

 five miles further South. Somehow I made 

 them. Had there been any tears left in my 

 eyes startable with pain, I'd certainly have 

 shed them making that five miles after two 

 nights' "rest." 



The cobbler was a gaunt little old man. 

 He put on a pair of soles more than three- 

 quarter's of an inch thick. Then I tramped 

 on out of town, and found that a change 

 had come. The next day the pain was not 

 half as bad, and three days later, in spite of 

 daily tramps of eight or ten miles, I was for- 

 getting my pedal woes. 



Since that time I have watched pack ped- 

 dlars limping along twisting their faces be- 

 cause of their pains. To such as listen I 

 preach the doctrine of good, thick soles for 

 shoes — soles that will not bend under the 

 foot. I've tried moccasins, "old, comfort- 

 able" shoes and moderately heavy soles, but 

 for long-distance steady walking there is 

 nothing like an unyielding sole. 



Raymond S. Spears. 



THE KENAI PENINSULA. 



Editor Recreation : 



With all its other features of interest 

 Alaska is certainly a country remarkable for 

 its magnificent mountain ranges and great 

 glaciers. Its mountains are the highest in 

 North America, and the beauty and extent of 

 its glaciers are world famed. Whoever has 

 been so fortunate as to travel Icy Straits, 

 winding in and out among the heavy fields 

 of ice that break away from the Muir and 

 neighboring glaciers, or following the coast 

 to the westward, past the Fairweather and 

 St. Elias mountain ranges, through the beau- 

 tiful Prince William Sound, studded with 

 mountain islands, and along the the southern 

 coast of the Kenai Peninsula will never for- 

 get the marvelous grandeur of the scene, 

 though it is rare that the clouds lift from 

 this grand panorama of high and rugged 

 mountains and vast moving fields of ice. 



Thousands of people from the eastern 

 states and from Europe have toured the 

 Alexander Archipelago, and described its 

 scenery as the most beautiful and enchant- 

 ing in all the world, but these people were 

 never carried west of Icy Straits. Had they 

 visited the coast to the westward just de- 

 scribed, they would have felt the beauties of 

 the Alexander Archipelago sadly lacking by 

 contrast, and beyond Icy Straits and Muir 



Glacier the scenes that would forever re- 

 main prominent in their memories would be 

 Fairweather and St. Elias mountain ranges, 

 the Malaspina and La Perouse Glaciers, 

 Prince William Sound and the magnificent 

 mountain range of the Kenai Peninsula and 

 its innumerable glistening fields of ice. The 

 Fairweather and the St. Elias ranges and the 

 mountains of the Kenai may be said to rise 

 directly from the coast, sending down their 

 solid rivers of ice, often many miles in 

 width, to break into and dissolve in the 

 waters of the salt seas. So frequently do 

 these occur along the coast of the Kenai that 

 as the steamer follows it one is never out of 

 sight of one or more of them. 



The beautiful College glaciers, so named by 

 the Harriman Expedition, are at the eastern 

 extremity of this range, and following the 

 southern coast of the Peninsula, westward to 

 Cape Elizabeth extends one grand series of 

 living glaciers, many of which are much 

 larger than the College glaciers. 



There is a magnificent broad belt of ice 

 extending from Port Dick on the south, com- 

 pletely over the mountains to Tutka Bay on 

 the north. (Port Dick connects with the 

 waters of the Pacific and Tutka Bay with the 

 waters of Kachemak Bay.) 



On the north side of the mountains the 

 twin glaciers, Dooroshon and Wossnes- 

 senske, descend to Chugachik Bay, and a few 

 miles further up the bay comes down the 

 magnificent Crewingk. Everywhere through- 

 out this grand mountain range the summits 

 are snow-capped the entire year, and from 

 every point from which one may view them 

 they present the same majestic, imposing 

 and rugged outlines. 



Andrew J. Stone. 



A WORD FROM MOOSEHEAD. 



Editor Recreation : 



Let me take this opportunity of saying, for 

 the benefit of your friends who may be going 

 on a fishing trip, that fishing in Moosehead 

 Lake has not been so good for years as this 

 spring. There have been an unusual number 

 of "salmon" taken. We are having beautiful 

 weather, and you who are confined to the 

 city for business have our heartfelt sympathy. 



A. A. Carter, 

 Greenfield Junction, Me. 



TEACHES "TAILING." 



Editor Recreation : 



A few days ago I read in your magazine in- 

 structions on breaking or educating a bird 

 dog puppy, and one of the recommendations 

 needs correcting, or some sportsman may 

 spoil a really valuable puppy. I refer to the 

 statement that a puppy should be taught to 

 range by being placed with an old dog and al- 

 lowed to see how it is done. Theoretically 

 this will work admirably, but practically it 



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