of the white church spires and the sil¬ 
ver birches and the great oaks. Nor 
was I in the least ashamed of my sen¬ 
timentality. 
* * * * * 
We set out at four-thirty that after¬ 
noon, under a lowering sky. Mister 
Chip led the way, Sonnyboy followed, 
and I brought up the rear. Rusty went 
ahead of all of us, barking a challenge 
to the forest. 
Here were wooded ways, echoing to 
no alien tread. Save for the path we 
followed—worn, for a generation, by 
his own plodding feet and the hoofs 
of his horse—the banks of green re¬ 
mained primeval. Always we could 
catch glimpses of the immaculate white 
forms of the birches, looking as if 
fresh - washed and scrubbed. They 
were ghosts of trees, stately, feminine, 
grouped together in chummy clusters, 
as if to gossip of the Nature-place of 
which they were a living part. 
Now the lane — it was no more 
than a half-hidden footpath — veered 
easily and indolently to the left and the 
foliage became very dense. There were 
more swamp berries and more wild 
flags and more of the sweet, pungent 
perfume of absolute remoteness. 
Several miles it was — miles made 
sweet with song of birds, and then— 
“I can hear it, Father!” 
The far-off whisper of water—its ca¬ 
dence and rhythm and pure melody, 
drawn across the harp-strings of fern 
and mountain laurel and low-sweeping 
branches. 
We were coming to our trout stream! 
“If we don’t catch none now,” ob¬ 
served Mister Chip, “we’ll stay ’till 
after dark—an’ make SURE. Yu folks 
go on down through that brush t’ th’ 
creek. I’ll take that derned dog up t’ 
th’ house an’ fasten him. Dogs ain’t no 
fit company fer trout fishin’.” 
Sonnyboy was the first to reach it! 
He parted the leaves and peered over 
into a fine, dark flow of mountain water 
that eddied around submerged boulders, 
and lay, in the deeper pools, like so 
much molten metal. 
A young trout fisherman stood at the 
brink of his first thrill—his first flash 
of immortality. 
(To be continued) 
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Page 451 
The Remington Pump Qun 
Most popular 
repeating shotgun 
in America 
Why Remington 
is the Authority in Fire Arms 
Ammunition and Cutlery 
L^OR over a century Reming- 
ton has made it a business 
to know what sportsmen 
want before they know 
themselves — and to see that 
they get it. 
The hammerless solid- 
breech repeating shotgun, for 
example, was first made by 
Remington and has been con¬ 
stantly improved byRemington. 
Today the Remington Model 
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Arms experts comment on 
the precision and finish of every 
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* * * 
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* * # 
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