June 5, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
905 
The Varnish Used on the Cup Defenders 
SMITH’S 
SPAR COATING 
Used by the Leading Yacht and Boat Builders. 
Successfully withstands excessive changes in weather 
and temperature. 
Has good body, is light in color, free working, elas¬ 
tic, durable, brilliant, and dries out of the way of injury 
from dust in about eight hours. 
Does not turn white on mahogany . 
Does not discolor your spars. 
EDWARD SMITH (SL COMPANY 
’ Varnish Makers and Color Grinders 
CHICAGO «EW YORK 
Clear small clouds blow over the high cliffs 
which border the west bank of the stream, the 
delicate streaks of vapor passing overhead to 
lose themselves in subtle tints in the east, fol¬ 
lowed in quick succession by many more. The 
foot of the cliffs are wrapped in heavy blue 
shadows, emphasizing with telling effect the few 
remaining projections higher up, which still 
catch the warm rays of the sun. The detail of 
the shore line is thus lost in purplish-gray 
shadows, here and there relieved by the van- 
colored strata of rock close to the water’s edge 
—white, pale yellow or red—all fading into 
duller tones as the warm light departs behind 
a group of thickly branched pines. Looking 
over the bows of our canoes as they cut the 
live waters, the warm, green highlights on the 
small waves offer a last tonic to the eyes as 
the approaching darkness calls for more effort 
from them. 
After an hour’s paddle we find ourselves off 
shore at the chosen camp site. The beach is 
hard and cold, the sand frozen solid. We select 
a sheltered location with special regard for its 
protection against a northeast wind. After 
pitching some tents to be used in case of rain 
or in the event of a sudden change of weather, 
the next and always important question is, that 
of dinner. While one busies himself in pre¬ 
paring the food for cooking, another is nurs¬ 
ing a camp-fire from a few small twigs until a 
blaze is obtained large enough to keep logs 
burning. 
Few sensations of extreme content can 
equal our feelings as we sit around the camp¬ 
fire after having partaken of a wholesome meal. 
The warmth of the fire relieves the weariness 
of the muscles and puts us at ease mentally, and 
one may wonder whether he does not obtain 
more genuine rest from these few hours than 
,from those which he passes in sleep. It is not 
long, however, before we decide that there is 
one place a little better suited than this for 
total physical and mental relaxation; and 
arranging our sleeping bags on the ground 
alongside the fire, but a little to the windward, 
we lapse into happy oblivion. 
The first ray of light pries open the eyes and 
one finds himself gazing upon a dimly lighted 
sky in which the few stars that are still visible 
compete for brilliancy with the dawn of another 
day. In the bushes nearby a song sparrow flits 
about close to the ground. Coming nearer, it 
gives an excellent opportunity to obtain a 
photograph, which would be the prize winner 
in any contest, but you are snugly wrapped in 
your sleeping bag, and to move would at once 
put an end to the most admired scene. 
The light grows stronger. A glance over the 
beach reveals it covered with frost, and a thin 
layer of ice has formed along the water’s edge. 
About ten feet from shore some distance down 
the river a dark spot is noticed moving toward 
you. The object comes nearer and nearer, until 
it is recognized as a sheldrake, which paddles 
along close to shore, passing you with as much 
unconcern as though you were a geological 
feature of the beach. One is perhaps possessed 
with a wish to take a shot at it. A couple of 
times you think to reach for your little pistol, 
but mind and body seem to have united in a 
conspiracy which each time leads you to wait; 
and the bird passes on. 
The snug position in which you find yourself 
in the early morning is very hard to leave, and 
after all it seems far more interesting to ob¬ 
serve that bird as it sails happily along than it 
would be to shoot and observe it dead, or more 
likely to see it disappear beneath the water’s 
surface not to reappear. 
At last surplus energy demands that you 
arise. The water in the bucket has frozen solid, 
and in order to compromise the bath ques¬ 
tion, you walk down the beach to the spring, 
where you can duck your head and shoulders. 
Walking along the beach toward the spring, 
your interest is soon centered upon a number 
of apple trees with which you are better ac¬ 
quainted when they are clothed with leaves. 
The branches of these trees are most carefully 
arranged, having few departures from a general 
harmony of curve, which gives the tree a well- 
balanced and pleasing appearance, which is duly 
appreciated by eyes craving for the beautiful. 
As these trees are quite young, it is doubtful 
if they will long remain thus symmetrical. 
Probably during their existence there will be 
times when certain branches will receive more 
favor from the sun and other branches more 
obstruction from other trees, which will change 
their now well developed and unaffected 
branches into distorted and uneven growths like 
the old apple tree' a little further away, which 
is none the less interesting for these changes. 
Past experience leads one to give a wide berth 
to the poison ivy which covers much territory 
almost everywhere. It is quite unnecessary to 
be so careful at this season, for the pores of 
the skin are not open as in summer, and so do 
not readily absorb the poisonous oil. 
While conducting an investigation of the 
water plants found in the drain of the spring, 
the silence is disturbed by a series of sounds 
which require no great amount of ornithological 
knowledge to preclude them from being uttered 
by one of the class Avis. Retracing your steps 
to camp, the inharmonious sounds resolve them¬ 
selves into earnest appeals from your com¬ 
panions for breakfast, for you have been ap¬ 
pointed cook for the day. For the next hour 
absorption is complete in the work of pro¬ 
ducing and reducing food. 
Later on we start to walk along the foot¬ 
path, which in summer is so thickly overgrown 
and which each year seems to be less traceable, 
though at this time it is very easily followed. 
Meandering through the woods, with no par¬ 
ticular destination in view, one loves to observe 
the changing formations of earth and rock. 
The time of the year makes the pines and 
birches very attractive. The birch trees 
silhouetted against a background of thickly set 
pines receive your attention, as with your eye 
you follow the long, quiet curves, which start 
from their roots and continue with soft varia¬ 
tions to the tips of the larger branches. The 
beauty of trees is not confined to theit upper 
structure. A careful study of the exposed roots 
of trees tends to inspire one with an apprecia¬ 
tion of the beauty of many things, however 
awkward they may at first appear. The roots 
of the pines and mountain maple, as they clutch 
rocks and earth, take the wildest variety of 
shapes and forms; yet reduce all hard angular 
places and sharp corners to pleasing, graceful 
curves which, unconsciously to the possessor, 
soothe untrained eyes; while, to the owner of 
trained eyes they are sources of constant pleas¬ 
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