May, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
277 
The song of the river had been in our 
ears for four days and nights. When we 
got into the lake it seemed like coming 
out of a boiler factory into a mushroom 
cellar. Silence . . . silence that just felt 
soothing and good- We had just come out 
of four days and nights shut in by the 
forest, shut in right up to the elbows. 
Now we had space, a couple of miles 
from the edge of the forest again. The 
sense of room came with an odd feeling. 
The depression: depression at the tower- 
ing wild crags that seemed so inhospitable, 
depression at the fringe of dead wood 
caused by the lumber dam flooding the 
trees around the rim: depression at the 
dark lake under a dark sky, where 
loomed mile after mile of fir-clad forest 
and mountain, and only the long wail and 
maniacal laugh of the loon: depression, 
but only for a moment, — then plying our 
paddles we straightened out for the stiff 
pull the length of the lake, and breaking 
into song we scooted up through the nar- 
rows, hauled up on a gravel beach and 
took possession of a couple of log cabins 
.where already the guides had a fire, and 
the fragrant whiff of coffee, and good 
cheer of frying salmon, — right under the 
lee of Old Nictau mountain. 
As we went in to supper, there, right 
out in the lake ahead of us, a cow moose 
was swimming, and diving for lily pads. 
Far on the further shore another moose, 
cow or bull, was slowly splashing" along 
the edge where the thicket came down 
to the brink. And on the shores of the 
lake, their ruddy coats standing out 
clear, five deer were in sight. 
So as we finished our savory meal and 
drew the cards out for a quiet game of 
bridge, as we lit our pipes and stretched 
comfortably before the fire, cosy and 
grateful even at midsummer, we dreamed 
back over the day, and then as the shad- 
ows of evening fell on us, we drew under 
the warm blankets for we must rise early 
tomorrow. The trail grew better and bet- 
ter as we went further on it. We were 
now in the very heart of the New Bruns- 
wick wilds. Nor did the next day dis- 
appoint us. On the contrary! So we got 
together some crude flashlighting gear, 
overhauled the stuff, and waited for the 
zero hour. 
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