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painted yellow and brown and flaming scarlet. 
But Hop had no eyes for the beauties of nature. 
He was tired and sore. He came out on a 
mountain road early in the afternoon, threw 
down his gun, bit off a fresh chew of tobacco 
and uttered one word, the one most expressive 
of his feelings. 
He was through. A farmer,. Rutland-bound, 
came rattling along in a buckboard and offered 
him a ride. He accepted with a grunt of thanks 
and jumped in. There was something with hoofs 
and antlers strapped on behind the seat, but 
Hop pretended not to see it. The farmer knew 
well enough what the hunter’s feelings were 
and was laughing at him as only a Yankee 
farmer can laugh — without uttering a sound or 
moving a muscle of his solemn face. They 
talked about many things on the way into town, 
but the subject of deer was never mentioned. 
They shook hands as they parted, and the farm¬ 
er wished his passenger good luck. 
“I wonder if he meant anything particular by 
that,” said Hop to himself as he buttoned his 
rifle under his coat and started for Pine Hill. 
The sun was just setting when Hop reached 
home. He hung his gun up over the door, 
kicked the cat out of the house and loudly de¬ 
manded his supper. There was something in 
the tone of his voice that warned.his wife not 
to ask any questions about bis two days’ hunt. 
She placed the supper on the table and Hop sat 
down to eat it. He was just raising his first 
forkful to his mouth when — bang! A firearm 
was discharged outside the house. 
“What in thunder was that?” said Hop, jump¬ 
ing to his feet. 
He opened the back door and looked out. 
There, over the fence, almost in his own yard, 
was a wounded deer on the ground! It was a 
splendid buck with large, spreading antlers. A 
hunter, knife in hand, was running up to cut its 
throat. 
Hop retreated into the house and gave the 
door a slam that almost jarred it from its 
hinges. 
“Well, I’ll be tarred and feathered,” he 
groaned, “if that ain't rubbin’ it in!” 
EFFECT OF FORESTS UPON STREAMS. 
The subject of the influence of forests upon 
stream flow is one which is just now being 
given a great deal of consideration all the world 
over, and there seems to be a variety of opinion. 
Although streams have been gauged and rain¬ 
fall measured for generations, says the Chicago 
Tribune, the observations thus far accumulated 
were mostly taken for the purposes of clima¬ 
tology alone, or of hydrology alone, and it is 
found exceedingly .difficult to apply them to a 
solution of the problem in question, and so 
there is a paucity of reliable data on which to 
found conclusions. In this breach the Govern¬ 
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'effects of forest cover upon stream flow, 
erosion, disposition of silt, etc., as well as their 
possible meteorological relations will be carried 
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level. The streams drain an area that ex¬ 
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streams for a period of eight or ten years — i. e.. 
long enough to show that with similar foresta- 
tion the behavior of the two streams is the 
same. 
One of the watersheds will then be cleared 
and the measurements will be continued for a 
further period of eight or ten years, so that the 
effects of denudation may be perfectly de¬ 
termined by comparing the results of observa¬ 
tions in the two tracts. 
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