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Mountain Waters 
(Continued from page 470) 
lured, even a little surprised by the 
revelation of the stream’s wild and 
primitively-haunting beauty—this was 
an angler’s dream come true. Tak- 
ing a fair fish at fair intervals, at 
times with a fly, ofttimes with a lively 
worm if they wanted worms—this was 
the romance of fishing. And the fish 
that rose to the lure, played havoc 
with man’s feelings, and fled to the 
shelter of hidden abodes? A flash of 
colors, a flip of tail, drops of waters 
shining like diamonds! Do you eall 
this fishing? Lo, it was history. 
Wild life prowled that stream 
tumbling down an opening in the 
forest, soft-pawed things that left 
faint trails along sandy beaches and 
damp earth, shy creatures that loved 
the talking waters and took lethal toll 
for needs of self and family. Accord- 
ing to amounts of droppings in scat- 
tered piles, varying hares had lavish 
and abundant banquets on mushrooms, 
and no distinction was made of ama- 
nita, chantrelle, lectar—poisonous and 
edible fungi were selected in a feast 
It will identify you. 
for the gods. Porcupines were lining 
a food trail through the trees; I found 
a young hemlock stripped of its bark 
from tassel to the ground, and a few 
rods inland another ‘tree that had 
begun to work. Jumping mice of the 
woodland variety left tiny trails on the 
soft earth beneath the hemlocks. Red- 
backed mice, rock voles, and _ white- 
footed mice —telltale sign betrayed 
their presence. 
As to woodchucks, we generally rate 
them as animals of sunny fields, or- 
chards and gardens. In the White 
Mountains the woodchuck is a forest 
lover, haunting the pines and hem- 
locks. Sunlight does not worry, the 
gloom of an impenetrable forest gives 
security, and so they round out a full 
life practically free from danger. 
Time after time have I surprised them 
basking on a mossy log in the pale 
sunlight, and the noise they made 
shuffling through the underbrush in a 
get-away was heavy for a lean, wiry 
animal. These forest woodchucks are 
active as red squirrels, and can give 
a dog a wonderful time. 
Red squirrels scolded from the safe 
height of pine boughs, while chip- 
munks seemed to have pressing busi- 
ness back and forth across the dim 
trails leading inland. Mink tracks 
bordered the water’s journey, and on 
the sandy bar of a shallow pool I 
found the part-eaten remains of a 
number of small trout. A find more 
important than all others consisted of 
bear tracks crossing the brook at a 
shallow place—Bruin must have been 
in a hurry for the trail showed no 
pause and led direct into big timber. 
It has been my good fortune to meet 
the black bear on a number of occa- 
sions, and all to my disadvantage. 
Once, on the Blue ridge swinging 
toward Moosilauke, I met a _ half- 
grown animal on the trail; he gave 
me a throaty yet loud “wough” or 
“wuff” of surprise and retreated in 
disorder and much noise down the 
ridge. Again, over back of the Fran- 
conia ridge, I stumbled upon two cubs; 
they whined for the mother, and being 
armed only with a canteen and a 
heavy camera, I thought it best to 
work out of the danger zone to the 
high ridge. A common occurence it 
was to start up deer bedding among 
the cool brake, but they were more 
common about the meadows and alpine 
ponds high up the ridges. Fox and 
wildeat—how the hunter blood tinged 
when sign showed their presence dur- 
ing the past night! It was not all of 
fishing to fish. Too much beauty of 
trees and ground flora, too frequent 
signs of wild life, a half an hour to 
secure the fish wanted, a whole hour 
to study and prowl and dream—that 
was fishing. Who could ask for more 
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