1254 
FOREST AND STREAM 
THE BIG OUTDOORS. 
For at least one month each season there is Injun 
blood in me; 
I hear the Big Woods calling and the songs of 
stream and tree. 
My heart for deals and barter is no longer 
primed with zest, 
The roll-top sets me frowning and my tired eyes 
face the West. 
I feel it coming — coming; 
Scent of balsam and of pine. 
The trout cord is a-humming, 
With a beauty on the line. 
Up from the wells of Nature 
The gushing incense flows, 
With here and there a glimmer 
Of steel-blue lakes that glimmer 
And mountains capped with snows. 
For at least one month each season, the Primi¬ 
tive comes first; 
My feet crave rough, wild wand’rings—I have 
the night-dew thirst. 
And, as I talk my business, and as I tend my 
toil, 
I see the camp-fire gleaming and hear the coffee 
boil. 
The wish is coming — coming; 
The call to far, dim ways —■ 
And Nature’s hand is strumming 
The strings of golden days. 
A quick sharp bark, that echoes; 
A brown form speeding past — 
Then—twigs that crackle louddr; 
The tang of burning powder, 
Thank God! The Woods—at last! 
For at least one month each season, I would 
be a Gypsy man, 
And roam the high, sweet places and ply th’ 
fryin’ pan. 
I must have my shirt throat open and let my 
beard grow wild, 
And blot the eternal picture of some papers 
being filed. 
The hope is coming — coming; 
That builds us all a-new — 
And at my desk I’m humming 
My last farewells to you. 
In just three days now, Sonny, 
I’ll seek those treasure-shores; 
And, after months of fasting, 
With rod, I’ll be a-casting 
In God's great Out-o-Doors! 
—W. Livingston Larned. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 
Members of the American Canoe Association 
gathered at the Park Avenue Hotel on Saturday, 
October 28th, to celebrate their 36th anniversary 
with a dinner. Proceedings were held under the 
auspices of the Atlantic Division. All six Di¬ 
visions were well represented and in all, over 
150 members were seated at the dinner. Camp 
songs were in order between each satisfying 
course. The officers and former Commodores 
gave very interesting talks on canoeing. Com¬ 
modore Saunders announced that the next Na¬ 
tional Meet would be at Sugar Island from Au¬ 
gust 10th to 24th and said from all reports that 
he expected to have a record breaking meet. He 
called on the racing men to send larger delega¬ 
tions than heretofore and asked all cruising men 
to come and try their hand at the Forest and 
Stream Wilderness Contest which has proved 
such a feature on the regatta program. A new 
attraction at Sugar Island will be a decked sail¬ 
ing canoe race for members over 50 years of age. 
A hundred dollar cup was donated by several 
of the members for such a race. 
The Executive Committee with Commodore 
Saunders in the chair met at the hotel at 10 
o’clock Saturday morning and finished up the 
business of the 1916 season. At noon a buffet 
luncheon was served and at 2130 the Board of 
Governors and Racing Board went into session. 
The latter revised the complete set of racing 
rules, making many changes to comply with mod¬ 
ern canoeing. 
A number of the lady members were guests at 
the buffet luncheon and later attended a matinee. 
WHERE FISHING IS ALWAYS GOOD. 
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the scenery is interrupted by the tug of your 
line, as a large big-mouth seeks to take it into 
his possession, or your attention is caught by a 
two or three feet alligator sliding off some 
favorite log, and then to think that these beauties 
of scenery are permanent, and are not doomed 
to die by the approach of winter, but can be 
enjoyed every day of the year and you can not 
help but rejoice that these beauties are lasting, 
but ever changing, by the blooming of other 
and different flowering plants and shrubs. 
While we have been drinking in and approach¬ 
ing the beautiful and changing scenery unfolded 
to our gaze, and accumulating all the bass and! 
big black sunfish or bream we can use, our out¬ 
board motor, almost silently, has moved us to 
the Veteran’s Camp, near the head of skiff navi¬ 
gation ; so we run up on the narrow sand bar, 
tie the boat, clean and broil the fish, fry the 
salt pork, minced with potatoes and onions, boil 
the coffee in the pure spring water of the stream, 
and with bread and butter, wild grapes and Guava 
jelly, mangoes and Avacoda pears, enjoy a feast 
that no French chef can surpass, cut the palm 
fronds and palmetto leaves, and place them 
eighteen inches thick for the bed resting between 
two palm trees connected by a rope to hold the 
mosquito-bar canopy; then to lounge and smoke 
and visit until drowsy, then to sleep, breathing 
in the ozone ar.d perfume of the flowering plants 
and vines all about your bed. Oh, such refresh¬ 
ing sleep! In the morn a plunge in the clear 
cool spring water; then a replica of the dinner 
for breakfast, then the return through the en¬ 
chantment of the beautiful scenery to Stuart, 
with plenty of bass, bream, sea-trout and ser¬ 
geant to give a good supply to all your near 
and intimate neighbors, and you will join with 
the writer in proclaiming, “That no other stream 
or section of the country can furnish such de¬ 
lightful fishing trips as can be had, any and 
every day of the year, on the water of the St. 
Lucie River and its tributaries, starting from 
Stuart, Florida.” 
The annual meeting of the Connecticut Fish 
and Game Protective Association was held on 
September 8th but was immediately adjourne 1 , 
the adjourned meeting taking place at the State 
Game Farm, Madison, Conn., on September 15th, 
where a lunch was served and an inspection of 
the farm was made. 
Big catches of channel bass have been made 
during the past three or four months by mem¬ 
bers of the Asbury Park Fishing Club at New 
Inlet, Carson’s Inlet and Townsend’s, all excel¬ 
lent “channel bass spots” along the New Jersey 
coast. 
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