JUNE . 1917 
FOREST A N I) S T R E A M 
269 
A SHORT STORY ABOUT A 
BROOK IN YANKEELAND 
By H. S. Alford 
C ONCEIVED in the rock-bound fastness 
of a rugged New England mountain; 
born a tiny, ice-cold stream trickling 
from a narrow cleft in the granite outcrop¬ 
ping, it takes its modest way down the slope 
toward the course which nature’s wisdom 
has provided to receive the infant rivulets 
of the watershed. 
Gathering volume as it is reinforced by 
other diminutive tributaries and hidden 
springs, its journey to the sea is fairly be¬ 
gun over a boulder-strewn course beneath 
an arboreal canopy of living green and bor¬ 
dered by the lesser forest growth of ferns 
and shrubs. Our stream, now a noisy youth 
of maturer age, resolves itself into pools and 
ripples which are the delight of the angler, 
whose pleasure may be still further en¬ 
hanced by merging with the facination of 
the sport an appreciation of what nature 
has done for him. 
As our stream emerges from the forest 
into the more open country, it loses none of 
its charm but under the sunlight becomes 
more sedate as it winds its way through 
pasture and medaow, until its unpolluted 
waters mingle with the larger stream which 
man has defiled. And from there to the 
sea it loses its identity in the contaminated 
waters which commerce has subserved to its 
own ends. 
T HIS ljttle journey from source to con¬ 
fluence has been briefly descriptive of 
the brook itself. What it has yielded 
to the angler, only those who have met with 
varied success along its course, each accord¬ 
ing to his light, may know. That it has re¬ 
sponded generously to the demands made 
upon it through many years, has been a 
never failing source of wonder to those who 
have taxed its fertility beyond reasonable 
craving, until the inevitable result became 
manifest in a depleted stream. 
That this stream was (and is) peculiarly 
adapted to the rapid growth and gameness 
of its trout is well known to many anglers 
who have found their pleasure there, as well 
as to the fisherman who has sought and 
found the more material profit. 
Its cold and shaded pools are especially 
enticing, alike to the angler and the object 
of his desire; and whether the lure be the 
“garden hackle” or the “feathered fraud,” 
successful endeavor in a contest of skill 
with its wily trout affords a compensation 
which none but the real lover of the sport 
can enjoy to the fullest extent. 
Those who have read Nessmuk’s “Wood¬ 
craft” will recall his predilection for “reduc¬ 
ing a pipe full of tobacco to its lowest de¬ 
nomination” during his solitary woodland 
wanderings. And those who have done 
likewise to the content of their souls would 
find, seated upon one of the huge boulders 
of this mountain stream with pipe alight, 
that the material rights of vested ownership 
would be as naught when compared to the 
brief undisputed dominion which, may be 
assumed—because all nature is free merely 
for the looking. 
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be, and when the kings are not otherwise 
engaged) has nothing on the angler, how¬ 
ever humble, whose love for the sport is 
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