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FORES T AND S T R E A j\1 
June, 1920 
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THE WOOD BURNING 
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has three closed sides confining heat and giv- 
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Tbnt makers for eighty years. 
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The Wilbur shotgu. peep sight will revolutionize 
wing shooting: no excuse for missing: game birds or 
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Made of blued steel, clamps instantly and rigidly 
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ble wood’s mechanic, the pileated wood- 
pecker, engaged in the closing hours of 
sylvan carpentry; the turtle squat on fa- 
vorite rock; a mink skulking along the 
shore line; the watersnake gliding head 
erect on the surface of the stream, pur- 
suing in graceful progress his quest of 
the lowly sucker with which to gorge 
himself; our neighbor, the muskrat, no 
less industrious than his bigger cousin, 
the beaver, swimming by with load of 
wild grass; tracks of deer on the bank 
denoting the crossing of doe and fawn; 
the redwinged blackbird of limited but 
cheery notes on alder perch alongside the 
nest where sits his sombre mate; the male 
scarlet tanager, likewise of humble voice, 
whose resplendant coloration contrasting 
with the green foliage amply atones for 
vocal deficiency; the monotonous call of 
the yellow billed cuckoo ; a loitering cow- 
bird seeking relief from nesting responsi- 
bilities; the rose breasted grosbeak from 
roost on lightning blasted stub chirping 
in neighborly way; the joyous offerings 
f accentor and of white throated sparrow 
from second growth birches and maples; 
busy vireos and warblers in the over- 
hanging branches; a waxwing aloft on 
poplar top; the ventriloquistic drum of 
ruffed grouse on wonted log, with its sug- 
gestion of distant thunder; the harsh 
challenge of great-crested flycatcher atop 
the tall elm, and issuing from a contigu- 
ous thicket of laurel, spruce and balsam, 
the liquid vesper carols of the sweetest 
songster of the American wildwoods, the 
hermit thrush — these in a measure were 
the faunal concomitants of the evening 
drift to our camp fire. 
I T was shortly before nightfall on the 
eve of our depature that occurred the 
disquieting episode of the “Big Un;” 
we had ceased fishing and were headed in 
to the landing. I but heard the mighty 
splash and saw the prodigious wake, but 
Frank, who at the oars was facing aft 
and whose range of vision, therefore, cov- 
ered the mouth of the little bogan where 
the fish had broken water, had witnessed 
the break cf the “Big Un,” asseverated 
that it was the biggest trout he had ever 
seen in the West Canada. In his excite- 
ment he assured me that the 3% pottnder, 
our record fish, taken bait casting, com- 
pared to this — we had been talking of the 
old deer hounds we had known — “was 
only a pup!” Frank immediately backed 
the boat out into the stream and held it 
stationary while I made short dry-fly 
casts all about the spot where the trout 
had risen. Up a ways, back again and 
everywhere that seemed likely, we cov- 
ered the water, but nothing but lesser 
adversaries came to the flies. Then we 
stationed the boat at the outlet of the 
setback and I cast with the wet fly into 
the water thereabouts — a promising lo- 
cality — but to no purpose; so long after 
dark we quit and sought camp. 
At half-past three o’clock next morn- 
ing I stood over the embers of the camp- 
fire of the preceding night “bilin’ the ket- 
tle.” Shortly I roused Frank from well- 
earned slumber to partake of hot coffee 
and cold hoecake. (The guides and the 
companions of my camping are wont on 
these occasions of stress to express the 
fond hope that with advancing years I 
shall effect a curtailment of this unseemly 
