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SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
MY BROOK. 
I call it mine, not from any proprietary, 
riparian or right vested in myself, but from 
the fact that I have wandered along its banks 
and have many times fished its streams and 
pools, and have as yet encountered no brother 
of the angle pursuing his silent and all-absorb¬ 
ing trade in those waters. The peaceful brother¬ 
hood do rather affect the river to which my 
brook is tributary. Hence I am left 'alone to 
throw my line upon its waters, or to sit and 
muse, “that the tribes of men may prosper,” in 
any one of the beautiful arbors upon its banks. 
It is well so. A crowd of fishermen is as 
incongruous a conception as a crowd of hermits. 
One angler, or one hermit, is enough for one 
landscape, and the angler who cannot fish alone 
kens not the spirit of his craft. Quite secluded 
is my brook, far from the highway and the smell 
of petrol, which last great advantage constitutes 
for me one of its chief attractions as an angling 
resort. 
The fish are, as a rule, not so big as those in 
the river, but they make up in numbers what 
they lack in point of size, and one does now 
and then hook a pounder as an especial treat. 
Sea-trout find their way here later in the sum¬ 
mer and when the great floods come. Even 
the noble Salmo salar disdains not my deepest 
pool, where he lies in hiding under the bank 
lest he be describing by the keen vision of the 
otter, who shameful to relate, often fishes in 
my waters without permission, either written 
or verbal. This angler possesses .110 spark of 
gentlemanly feeling, and, moreover, is disgust¬ 
ingly wasteful, in that he has left upon the banks 
of my brook many a fine fish, having eaten only 
the thick fleshy portion of its back. 
The banks of my brook are here and there 
thickly wooded, mighty oaks and giant willows 
embracing - each other across the current, and 
for one long reach forming so symmetrical an 
arch that I have named this stretch of tree and 
water the Grand Aisle. Fishing here in the 
dusk of a summer evening, such are the solemn 
circumstances of the place that one experiences 
a feeling of intimacy with the infinite and 
eternal, deeper and stronger than when con¬ 
templating the mightiest edifice built for and 
dedicated to the purposes of worship. 
When the light of common day is departing, 
and the eye of the soul, no longer diverted by 
the many beautiful objects of nature, is turned 
upon the world whence it came and whither it 
is going but which, by “this muddy vesture of 
decay” it is prevented seeing clearly, then is the 
mind of the angler filled with “thoughts which 
break through language and escape.” 
At the end of the Grand Aisle, smaller trees 
and shrubs, by uniting their branches under 
water in an indescribable tangle, render this 
part of my brook almost unfishable. One's 
tackle is almost sure to become hopelessly en¬ 
tangled and lost, but here lie the fish, and he 
who is hardy enough to risk a few flies, and 
who can repeatedly mend his line with due 
calmness and philosophy, may, at the close of 
his day’s sport, find his pannier more than com¬ 
fortably heavy, and his heart correspondingly 
light. 
The feathered tribes testify to the serene 
seclusion of my brook by the confidence with 
which they build in the bushes upon its banks. 
In the spring scarce a bush is without a nest, 
and the varied music is bewildering. In the 
holms, which bound the upper reaches, the 
angler must walk circumspectly lest he tread 
upon the eggs of the plover. The kingfisher 
also comes here, and, as he sits grave and mo¬ 
tionless on some friendly bough, his bright blue 
swallow-tail coat and red waistcoat remind one 
forcibly of an eighteenth century dude, canary- 
colored stockings and silver-buckled shoes only 
being wanting to complete the resemblance. 
Almost every species of English wild flower 
grows here. In the spring the banks of my 
brook are starred with primroses, wild hyacinths 
and harebells fill up every available corner, 
banks of forget-me-nots embroider meadow 
and brook, while a little later great islands of 
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MY SIXTY YEARS ON 
THE PLAINS 
True Pictures of a Vanished Life 
"BILL” HAMILTON 
Appropriately enough W. T. Hamilton, the 
ast survivor of the old race of free trappers, 
became the author of one of the best pen pic¬ 
tures of the old life of the plains and moun¬ 
tains ever written. 
No work of fiction offers more adventure, 
more thrills of desperate bravery, heroic endur¬ 
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per and plainsman, the companion of Bill 
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“Sixty Years on the Plains” is all that the 
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of frontier life, hunting, trapping, Indian fight¬ 
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the store house of sixty years of wonderfully 
full experience, Mr. Hamilton drew the material 
for a book of splendid interest and real value. 
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