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key gobbled in spring as of old and the ruffed 
grouse stalked among the trees with majestic 
tread. ‘The pigeons still gathered here to roost, 
and the thunder of their wing beats at morning 
and at evening was like the rushing of a mighty 
wind through a ship’s rigging. 
It was to the old swamp that the hunters re- 
sorted now for game, and often the sharp crack 
of the rifle rang among the trees or the roar of 
the shotgun awoke its once silent echoes. The 
angler pushed his way down the course of the 
stream and caught the trout. One began to find 
paths in the swamp that were not game trails. 
A few more years passed by with rapid changes. 
The ax had been at work. Now all the timber had 
been cut away, but there was still left the under- 
growth. Deer and bear and turkey and wild 
pigeons had disappeared, but there were some 
grouse left, and the quail, when startled from 
the stubble fields about its borders, still sought 
safety in the old swamp. The closing change in 
the old swamp was yet to come. Trenches were 
dug through the swamp. The brush was cut 
down and burned. The brook dried up. The 
plow passed over the land, and the next year a 
crop of sod corn was grown where once the 
beaver had their homes. Such is the history of 
many an old swamp. 
All this is progress—the march of improve- 
ment. It is also the reason why our streams are 
drying up, and why the farmer complains that 
each year there is less rain, and it is a harder 
matter to grow crops. It explains why our rivers 
are gradually becoming more and more shallow, 
why the water-power that turned a hundred mills, 
now turns none and is replaced by steam. It is 
something that is taking place all over our coun- 
try. The clearing up of each swamp like this 
one is a misfortune to our people, and the aggre- 
gate of such misfortunes means a loss of material 
wealth that can scarcely be computed. This loss 
is widely distributed, and is not felt as it comes, 
but it increases year by year. The farmer knows 
that his land becomes each season a little less pro- 
ductive, but he does not know why. Perhaps he 
thinks that it is worn out, and strives by the use 
of fertilizers to renew its old-time luxuriance. 
Vain remedy. Without water no amount of ma- 
nure will make crops grow, but water will make 
fertile the sands of Sahara or the arid sage-brush 
wastes of our Western deserts. Has not the val- 
ley of the Great Salt Lake been made to blossom 
as the rose? 
The story of the old swamp is told of no one 
locality. Each one of us has seen the work go- 
ing on in his own neighborhood, has witnessed 
the disappearance of the native fauna and flora, 
ne drying up of the streams. What will be the 
end? 
Hit vs. Miss. 
Dr. S. prided himself upon his skill as a 
woodsman and rifle shot; but his merit in this 
regard was not recognized by an uncharitable 
world. One day he and Captain B. went out 
deer hunting. They separated, and soon the 
Captain heard his companion shoot. A moment 
later a terror-stricken calf rushed frantically by, 
and had scarcely disappeared in the bushes be- 
fore the Doctor ran up and inquired if the Cap- 
tain had seen the deer, which he was sure was 
mortally wounded, pass that way. “Why, 
Doctor,” exclaimed the Captain, ‘‘is it possible 
that you took that calf for a deer?” 
- The Doctor’s countenance lengthened; and 
then “a light on his visage spread,” and he re- 
plied: “I was not certain whether it was a calf 
or a deer, and I therefore aimed so that I would 
hit if a deer, or miss if it turned out to be a 
calf.” Nisa 
Nature’s Stocking of Ponds. 
A FEW years since, a friend informed me he 
shot a sheldrake flying from the lake to his nest. 
On throwing him into his boat two live pickerel, 
about four inches long, dropped from his mouth. 
This shows how pickerel may be transported 
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