THE OREGON " DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND.' SATURDAY VENIG, SEPTEMBER 2G, 1003.
GOOD STORIES ; FOR CHILDREN-
McBOUGALL
Strange Experience of a Little City
Though He Knew. What fa
Boy Who Went to the Country and
--'i learned a Lot About Wild Animals
Said About - Theti His Little 1
Knew Much More
WHEN Edward Perry was 18 he was regarded
the1 most promising boy in the High
School. He was a slim, pale lad, who
Una ao nearsighted thit ho had to wear very strong
glasses, and as he was not a sturdy boy, he rarely
oined tho other fellows in their rough games, but -at
indoors and read all sorts of books.
When vacation camo, instead of going, to the
eashore or playing all through the warm summer,
. ho took up a few other studies, and the result was
that when school opened, instead of returning
there, he was sent into the country to his Uncle
Arnold's .farm, for he was, so week and nervous v
that he could not study. For more than a week he
lay in bed in the great room looking out over the
fields and woods, but as he was not allowed to wear
bis eyeglasses, of course he saw nothing but, a dim
blur of green against the sky. He grew very tired
of all this; yet, as the doctor had ordered perfect
.' quiet,' there was nothing to do but he patient and
wait for the day when be would be allowed to go
out into tho woods.
Up to this time he hod never been in the country.
for vacations heretofore had been passed at home
or rarely in a seashore hotel, but now, when he
should be better, he would have a chance to roam
. .. the green i fields and examine the many curious
things. about which he had studied in his natural
history books. He was pleased, for he bad read
so much that he imagined he knew all about every
thing that walked, crept, flew or grew in wood and
- valley, but in this be soon found he was greatly
-mistaken.-,-. - . - .
On the twelfth day his glasses were -restored to
him, and then be enjoyed the sight of the fields and
trees from his window for another week, when one
morning ha waa awakened by a boy of his own age.
"Good morning," aaid this lad, smiling broadly
wnd with such a frank end open expression that
Edward's heart went out to him at once. "I am
Tour cousin, Sam Price. Uncle Arnold asked ma
to come and stay here with you, so's you would
have company. The doctor says you may go out
to-day and take a walk" .
- - trJ , y 13ffjSy 'ffi ' U i-ft - L-i - - ' ,, bewuse of .the coolness. . But the fish waa thy end
13 m A t a, tiMJS " - , a tubbla from amaU minnows, which, Sam said,
UJllK ftff ' T-Sy lrT' 3 j ffe , , wa, because the big iish waa watching th bait and
fk A-Mmi'L ' ' ' '4vOt'r Wf ' , that both boya felt a little awed
WHm A -'ZLj tSMZfr -sJ&Jiv& . by tho stillness and the almost oppressive peaceful-
C " P-VS AWMWA 7 -Jm&M ''Mf( J? nfM ; Suddenly great bird ..i& tip thf-tre-ui
v il'-f rafw L:' lWPM- ' . fc "lowly, looking downward. It waa a fish hawk out
Jr: V rWlMwWOTi f iHSftf$y! -fr . . .( ' & " - tttrketinjr.. He circled twice right over the deep
t'MMwlw Wp I X, rX'' ; " WB ?ts&f- " never noticin the motionless boy. bythe '
wfflP" WrtLw Yp0m "v- ' jiiJ W f$$7W vi tree, thea went on, The next instant kingfisher,
fiT ftf ft1. ' lPli-' Vp&Mi &f " th a loud acream, darted down from branch ju
v MnUClw fi .iI'M $M$f s ' : - over their heads, and, dashing deep into the water.
fiKK (7 IJJSS2 f - Wl44iBf V ' ': -pin with ; fish,. a perch, Sam thought,
HAtiAfi'WL m?'''lMmM C dJWmWk( 4lA ... nd away h went like blue flash, with abrick of
IClMllJC Z?i jir&i. nmmmmM,, . . MteSf"UtV ' a-he'eaue aweepitut back: but after Doisiti h!m!
u tent or A , ? Ji-Tka.
"I'd like
something.
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Edward hastily dressed, for he had felt, for two
idrtys that this was what he needed, and bad deter
mined to tell the doctor so.
J 'He waa ready soon, and followed Sam out of
doors. It waa so early that nobody else, not even
... Gladys, tho cook, bad risen, and the sun was just
feeping over hemlock grove on top of t faraway
ill as they crossed ; the garden, climbed a rail
fence and trudged away along the edge of the pas
ture. ' Suddenly a startled rabbit sprang up and
bounded away before them. Edward stopped and
""aksdrr" "
-What was it r '
"That's a rabbit," replied Sam. "Didn't you ever
see one before!"
Tea," answered Edward, ' blushing thfct he had
not recognized the familiar animal Then he
laughed and added: "But I never aaw one from
behind, I guess." '
' Toull aee plenty of them that way, tnd some
times in front, too, when they ait up and stare at
you." . - -
- As they passed ajong Edward asked all manner
of questions regarding the weeds, trees and birds.
To his surprise, many of the plants were those he
had studied about, and with the pictures of which
he was quite familiar, but now he did not recognise
them.
As to the birds, hewas too nearsighted to dis
tinguish them, unless they were very close to him,
but Sam knew their every whistle tnd peep, as well
as their mode of flight, so that, far off in the sky,
he could distinguished a flicker or a hawk or a robin,
or ia the deepest woods Bay with certainty that a
jay or a bluebird waa near. As the boys skirted
the woods beyond the pasture a hawk flew out hur
riedly, followed, to Edward's surprise, by a small
. bird that chattered harshly as it chased the hawk,
hovering about its head and making vicious dashes
at it from time to time. Edward atared.
"That's a hawk," remarked Sam, "and the little
bird'a a kingbird chasing it. Ther drive hawks all
day long. Just see the little feller give it to him,
will you!"
The big hawk in terror darted this way and "that,
but the sharp beak of the kingbird struck him
again and again, so that his feathers floated in tho
air. Up and up they mounted, the small bird stab
bing all the time at the hawk's broad back, and, al
though the bird of prey tried to strike back, the
agile kingbird danced away like a lunbeamu Then
the hawk swooped down swiftly and fled into the
woods, while the king bird returned to bis perch,
but all the way back he went through the motion
and turns of the fight, as if rehearsing it, with
many a triumphant "click, click," finally reaching
his wife s side and receiving, no doubt, much warm
praise for his bravery.
- "That hawk was after one of those quail yonder,"
laid Sam, 'lie was coming through the woods
lo'a they couldn't see him."
to live right out here in
Wouldn't it be splendid f"
"That's just what I've wanted to do all mv life!"
replied Sam. "Still, I am out here a good bit.
Ought to have enough of it, but if tho doctor will
let you come out and8leep here, I'll build a bough
house and we'll camp out."
They hastened home, filled with this new idea,
arid as the doctor could not be expected to be abroad
at that still early hour they went to his house and
soon obtained his permission, for he considered
that it would greatly benefit the sick boy to be in
the open air at all times.
That afternoon Sam began to build the house,
and the operation interested Edward immensely.
He first set up thirty or forty sapling poles in the
ground in a ' square, and across these he wove a
great number of smaller ones, which he had split
in half. The result was a network, across which
he then wove thin branches, grass and mahes
anything that was handy until a thick, almost
rainproof wall waa formed. After this he laid on
the roof, but this he made entirely of long grass,
thatching it thickly, so that water could not pene
trate it but would run down tho grass and upon
the ground.
Edward was able to assist in the work after he
had aeen how it was done, and in two days they
had a fine dwelling, far enough in the woods to
make them feel that they were really and truly
"camping out." With a frying pan and kettles, a
hatchet, a supply of provisions and matches, they
repaired to the new house in great glee, Edward
feeling a thrill of joy at the thought of at last
being able to study nature at close quarters.
After their camp had been put in order Sam
said : .
"Now, the first thing to do is to go to the creek
and catch some tiah for dinnen"
. lie picked up two long, slender poles that he
had already prepared and hidden in the brush with
a country boy's caution against prowlers and
started off. When ihfy arrived at the creek Ed
ward found it to be a beautiful, still stream that
Btole through the woods where the trees hung over
the dark, clear water caressingly, a spot so silent
and peaceful that even the wind Beamed to whisper
and the sunbeams steal through the foliage more
timidly than elsewhere. Here Sam sat down in the
grass and tied his lines to the poles. Then he pried
open the lid of the old tomato can filled with
squirming worms, big, fat "nightwalkers" that fish
love, but which, as he saw Sam put them on the
hooks, gave Edward a crawly sensation within.
He had never been fishing before. Then Sam
dropped the lines into the water where the bank!
overhung the stream and said:
add
things," added Edward, "you would be better off.
Do you know that all the malaria, all the chills and
fever and the awful yellow fever tome only from
mosquito, bites t That's quite true, and yet people
never seem to worry at all about it, but go right on
slopping with no nets over their windows or beds,
and they blarao their malaria to a swamp or mea
dow." '
Sam was amazed, for this was the first time he
had heard about the poison of mosquitoes, although
he well knew what a lump it left on his skin. But
ho was aware now that Edward had learned many
things with which he was totally unacquainted, and
Thprn Stnnri a flrpnt Tpnr nnd ne WM 1uite willing to admit the truth of what he
lUCri JLUUU a Ureal Dear ana Mid about the pestiferous insects, so he resolved
Her Two Young Ones
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. He pointed out to Edward what seemed brown.
; abadows in the.graas near the fence, and in another
moment he saw the birds move as if relieved by the
hawk's departure, but not at all alarmed by the
' boy's presence.
, "How tame they are 1" cried Edward.
"They ain't been shot at yet. Wait till next No
. vember. Then you can't see them 'cept once in a
while, when you stumble over them, and then they
get away mighty sudden, I tell you."
. As they moved softly through the thin growth at
the edge of the'wood Sam stopped, keenly staring
"Look; there's a hoot owl on that dead limh S.
him!"
"Can't we catch him?" asked Edward. "He can't
see us."
"Don't fool yourself," replied Sam. "That's all"
nonsense about owls being blind in. the daytime.
He sees us and make no mistake."
" Tea, the owl saw them, end he slid off the branch
as Sara spoke, and with a flight as silent as the air
itself he swept away, vanishing instantly. The air
was filled with bird aongs. On every side the liquid
notes poured down. , Meadow larks, in the open, as
well as quail, veepejr birds, thrushes, wrens; black
birds flickers and other woodpeckers, all vying with
one another" In melodious concert. Edward was
delighted, , . t
"Ken back from the edge or else they'll see you,
'n' if They do it's all up. Look out for that big
devil's darnin'-needle I" he added, excitedly, as a
large dragonfly hovered over the end of the pole.
"It'e good luck when they light on your flshpole,
but they'll sew your eors up."
' Edward smiled and said: "I am from the city,
but I know that a dragonfly can't "do any such
thing. It's entirely impossible, for they're not
built that way."
Sam insisted upon it as a well-known fact, but
when he was asked if he had ever known of a case
of a boy's ars being sewed up, said that he never
had heard of such.
"It's an old superstition," added Edward, "just
the same as the story of a toad giving you warts if
you handlo one,"
"That's so, too," declared Sara.
"All nonsense," said Edward, solemnly and de
cidedly. "And, so is the tale about horsehair snakes.;
I suppose you believe in them also."
"I've seen 'em I" returned Sam. "Seen 'em in
the horse trough by the pump 1"
"They're not snakes at all," declared Edward.
"They are worms that are parasites of the common
black cricket. You catch a cricket and see if you
can't find one."
Sam, forgetting his fish line, deftly caught a
black cricket near a pile of stones, and, breaking
it open, f ound nothing within, but Edward made
him try another and another, and in the third he
found a long, black, threadlike worm that was ex
actly like the horsehair snake he had seen so often,
and then he listened to Edward's learned talk about
such parasites, for ha had studied much about
them; and when he had finished Sam said:
"Geet that's funny I You come here from the
city and show me a thing that's been right under
my nose nil my life, and I never would have thought
Of looking for it at all ! 1 s'pose you're right about
the devil's darning-needle, too."
"I am sure cf that," replied Edward. "When a
cricket happens to fall into the water the worm
escapes and swims around, and, perhaps, lays its
eggs there, or it may change, as many worms do.
into some oiner iorm.
Scarcely, however, had Edward dropped his line
into the dark water than there came a mighty tug,
and. pulling up quickly, he drew out a fish far
larger than Sam's. This made h:m feel immensely
satisfied with himcolf, and his delight was increased
a few minutes later by the capture of another,
larger stilL
"That's enough for a meal" said Sam, and, al
though Edward enraptured with the sport, wished
to continue, he insisted upon going back to camp.
"You needn't worry. They'll be here to-morrow
and next day, too. It's no use to catch more'n we
can eat at once, for we have no icebox," said he.
So back to the camp they went, and Sam fried the
fish, while Edward set the table, placing crackers,
salt, butter and milk on the ground, and when all
was ready and the two hungry lads were about to
fall to there sauntered up, with faces alight with
pleasure, Sam's sister Clara and Maudie William
eon, her bosom friend, both of whom had been
Bearching all morning for the boys' camp, and were
fully as hungry as the two fishermen. Of course
the boys simply had to invite them to share their
meal, and as they watched the two girls make away
with the trout they both groaned inwardly, and
when' the girls went away Edward said with em
phasis: "Next time you'll let me ctach all I want to,
won't you?"
"We will move the camp; that's what we'll do.
if they are going to come round often," replica
Sam. "I am as hungry as ever. Don't oare, any
how. Clara was a-sittin' right up against a lot
of poison ivy, and if she breaks out all over it will
just serve her right."
Edward, who had, of course, read about poison
ivy, was deeply interested, and had to have it
shown to him at once, which gave Sam an oppor
tunity to recover some of his prestige by explaining
all about every poisonous plant in the woods and
fields with which he was acquainted, from which he
wandered to snakes and bugs, but when he told of
the many dreadful serpents that infested the woods
Edward called a halt.
"I know more thanyou do about snakes," he de
clared, "although I canft tell a garter snake from a
hoopskirt snake
never to sleep without a net over him.
Not having bad enough of the trout to satisfy
their longings, they decided to return to the creek
toward evening and try their luck again, but as
Sam wished to gather a pail of berries they went
by a new-route down a narrow valley. - Here, while
they were busy picking berries,. Edward suddenly
spied an animal about the size of a cat. He called
to Sam, who came running to him and then aaid
excitedly:
"Get away quick I That's a skunk!"
Edward scrutinized the beautiful creature, with
its black-striped coat, wth great interest, but Sam
pulled his coat sleeve earnestly.
"Don't ever take any liberties with a skunk,"
said he. "They ain't afraid of anything."
"I've often read that they are creatures that, if
left alone, are perfectly harmless," said Edward.
"I thought that they never came out in the day
time." ... . ... t ' " ,
"I never took enough interest in 'em to find out
much about 'em," replied Sam, as he hurried Ed
ward away. "I've got no use for skunks. There,
he's following us 1" he shouted, excitedly, and, sure
enough, the skunk was coming after them like a
playful kitten, whereupon Sam took to his heels,
and, his fright communicating itself to Edward, he
ran as fast. The skunk looked after them as if
wondering why they didn't stay and play with him.
"Gee!" exclaimed Sam, wiping his brow when
they had reached a safe distance. "That was a
narrow escape. I wish I had brought pop's gun."
Here's something else," whispered Edward, add
ing immediately, "it's a porcupine, sure as I live."
It was walking slowly through the open wood,
and they could see it very distinctly. Sam ran to
ward it, and it rounded up its back, huddling down
close to the ground, its spines bristling in.all di
rections. '
"There's another up in that tree!" cried Sam.
Look out for them ! They'll shoot out their quills
into you, and they're awful hard to get out again!"
aelf over the dooL ho too. aoared off at if dfaoD-
pointed. Then a. great brown butterfly, with golden,
spots, floated along over the water, and in an in
stant a dark form showed beneath, but before
they cod really aee what it was a. big trout leaped
in the air and the butterfly was gone. ',
"That's why he won't take our bait,? whispered
-Sam. -. " r-.-r--... .-,.,...- . .
Then Edward! aaw a. thing few people ever lee.
A tiny shrew, far smaller than a mouse, came
creeping by the water's edge, eagerly seeking food,
for this little, dull, slow, short-sighted creature is
full of fight and as savage as a lion, and he had
been after that irolden-winired butterflv. UmiMlf.
one Be was siowiy creeping, out irom toe nnaer
brush darted a short-legged creature with dark
brown, nearly black, fur, an animal about as long
os Edward's arm. It resembled weasel, and al
most flow along the ground. It's beady eyee flashed
as it sprang upon the shrew, and then it waa gone.
"That was a mink, and a big fellow," whispeerd
Sam. "Watch and you will see him further-up
stream."
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In spite of his excitement at seeing these ani
mals alive and in their native haunts Edward in
stantly replied :
fable! They can't shoot
"f ain't a 'hoopskirt' snake! It's a hoop snake,
and it's an awful one, let me tell you," said Sam,
"Now, really; you know there is no such snake,"
' said Edward. "It's only a fable."
"Si Pickering saw one!" shouted Sam. "And it
hit a tree with the horn in its tail, and in twelve
hours all the leaves fell off the tree and it died."
"All the same, there's no such snake," replied
' the city boy, "no more than there's horsehair
snakes. Besides that, we have in all our country
only two venomous snakes the rattlesnake and
the copperhead or moccasin. None of the others
have poison fangs or poison sacs. So there !"
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"Not adders?" cried Sam. "Not even puff-adders?"
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"Nope, not even the wicked-looking puff-addera," :
replied Edward.
"All the same, I'd like to see you pick up a big,
hitsing puff-adder!" declared Sam, stoutly.
"Huh! I'd run if I saw any snake," confessed
Edward. "But that doesn't make any difference.
I know what I'm talking about."
"How, about sow bugs?" asked Sam, as he sud
denly turned over an old flattened log and revealed
numberless gray crawling things that tried to get
out of the light as rapidly as possible. "Ain't they,
poisonous?" " r --
"Oh, I know what those are !" cried Edward. "We
had a lecture about them by Mr. Allen, the ento-
..Hlplogial. They are wonH lina nr "Tnillidium."
He touched one with his finger in spite of Sam's
word of caution, and it instantly rolled itself into
a ball a 6hiny globe, inside of which it neatly
packed its legs and pretended to be doad. Edward
added:
"They are not bugs nor really insects at alL'ao
their quills."-
He was so confident of tho fact that he ran right
up to Mr. Porcupine and poked him with a stick,
whereat he grunted and began to move away. '
"See?" cried Edward. "He can't shoot for a
cent I ' His quills are pretty loose, and sometimes
they shake out when, he wags his tail with rage,
and that's why people believe ho darts them out."
He seized some of the longer quills, and the animal
left them in his hand. Sam came close and said:
"Injins make fine bead work out of these quills.
Let's keep 'em." - ,
They allowed the porcupine to get away and went
on. , Sam again expressed his wonder at Edward
knowing so ninny curious facts, although he was a
eickly and nearsighted boy, who had never been in
the. woods before; but when Edward told him that
Huber, the man who wrote the greatest book about
ants, was entirely blind and never could aee. au
ant, he was. astounded.
"After all," he mused,1 "I don't know much about
animals and things. When I come to think of it,
I never watched any of them very long at a time,
and that's what you must do to learn. I remem
ber thinking that the mother swallow war mighty
mean in feeding one bird all the time and nevr
noticing the others, until one day pop told me that
she filled one young. bird up entirely bef or she
fed another, and by the time the last, one waa full
the first was ready to begin again."
"Tnat's funny. I never knew that," replied Ed
ward. "And I don't know when the old birds ever get
time to eat themselves," added Sam, "for it keeps
them awful Jmsy getting grub for the hungry little
ones. Hawks are the worst, I guess. , They always
nave nests in qeaa trees
Edward watched, and so he saw another spec
tacle. Something came swimming across the
stream, leaving a wake like a tiny boat Sam saw
it and said: "Muskrat." Its head was visible, and
its eyes ihone, and, as it Beared their side of the
creek they saw the mink again, but the muskrat
sIbo saw him and turned back. The mink went in
after him at once and caught him in midstream,
and there they fought, for tho rat was an old one
and strong. In their rage they drifted near the big
tree, and Sam. leaning far out, fetched the mink
such a blow that he loosened his hold on the rat
and turned over gasping. Sam hit him again and
again, and then succeeded in drawing his body
ashore with the pole. '
The rat swam away, doubtless well pleased to
escape ao easily. Then, after all was calm again,
a wood duck, brilliant as a peacock, floated past,
followed by his more sober-hued mate, and Sam
quivered with excitement, but suddenly both birds
rose from the water and, quacking loudly, darted
with inconceivable rapidity into the woods as a
huge black hawk appeared in the sky. ,
But the big trout, perhaps alarmed at all that
was going on in this placid, serene nook in the for
est, which the boys had thought so lonely and de
serted, refused to bite, and finally Sam said, with a
grunt:
. "Guess there's nothin' doin' to-day. Let's mosey
along."
"I'm glad we came, anyhow," said Edward, "for
I saw things, you bet. When you come to think of
it, there's nothing but killings going on all the time
in the woods. Hey?"
"That's so," replied Sam. I suppose we're the
only things that are really safe.
Edward stopped, for there was a great rustling
in the undergrowth beyond. He had seen so much
that he wished for more, but when they took a few
cautious steps forward they saw what caused their
eyes to bulge. There, sitting on her haunches, was
a huge brown bear, with two smaller ones Lusilv -
' engaged in breaking open a rotten tree trunk with
their claws. One of the. half -grown cubs saw the
boys first and uttered a startled cry, which caused
the old one to look around and, seeing them, rise
to her feet The boys stood transfixed for an in
, stant, and then each uttered a wild yell, both start
ing off at the instant to give the finest exhibition
of sprinting ever seen in that county. They never
knew it, but Mother Bear started off in the opposite
direction even faster than they, followed by her
cubs, and every time their feet hit the ground thej
dug holes, so eager were they to get away;
The boys never stopped at their camp, but ran
nearly all the way home, for that was the oidy
place that seemed perfectly safe when bears were
abroad in the land. Hiram, the hired man, said
that he had heard that bear tracks had been seen,'
but bears, he said, were no good at that season of
the year, as they were mangy and thin. So, he
said, he would let the bears go until winter came,
and then let them look out for Hiram Doughty,-
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"After all,' remarked Edward that evening, "I
have often read that bears our American bears,
X meanr were peaceful and shy of man, always
running away, and never, unless wOtmded, making
any attempt to fight, and that one was quite likely
to be as frightened as we were. ;, I wish we hadn't
been so confounded sudden."-, . , ,
"Didn't you see those cubs!" erled '.Sato, excited
ly. "Did you see their eyes? Didn't you see her. &
red mouth when she rose up and lit out for us? .
..That was a she-bear, and those were her cubs, and
11 we naa stavea a second longer hy.:thu..JuL.
"That's because they kill the trees alwavs" aaid
Edward. "I've seen them a't the seashore, but also
I've seen hawks' nests up in Massachusetts built
right on the roofs of houses." : , , - . v
"Do tell!" exclaimed Sam, astonished;
It was late in the afternoon when they reached
dren that hollered 'Baldy at 'Lijah wouldn't have
been in it with us I She would have grabbed us and
fed us to her cubs I" . . " ,
"Bears never eat men!" cried Edward with em
phasis. "I've read ahat lots of times, and the
keeper at the Zoo told me they ate honey, berries '
and roots, and he only gave them meat 'cause he
ebb i HWa into a butterflv liw the pwfeaw aaid. They're re atives of the crabs the creek by this new. way, and the gloom was deep- couldn't berries and such."
iifir-'h' lnT rotteri4k-t-tlld.-lobsters, and are survivals of theimmense ef in the woods than before, but the ..m 'fcn-V fct T.rTVJ. 1
pillars," ventured bam; but as he felt a snrlHn
and violent tug at his line he said no more, but
applied himself to watching, and when the tug
came again he snubbed sharply find jerked out on
the grass a fin? trout that weighed nearly a pound
Edward had a bite a moment later, but not being
an adept, he did not land his fish. Instead he lost
his bait and Sam had to-put another bi squirmer
on the hook.
creatures that once roamed -the earth all clad in
hard, mail-like knights in armor. I am glad you
showed them to me. No; they're not poisonous at
all." , .
" Sam looked doubtful as he watched the sow bug
or wood louse slowly unroll and then scamper away
like. a tiny hedgehog. '
- "Lf you were half as careful about being bitten
by mosquitoes as you. are in avoiding harmless
er in the woods than' before, but the sui 'shona,
down brightly on the water," and a loud splash, fol
lowed by widening circles on the placid, surface,
showed that a big fish had just risen after an un
wary fly, so there Sam, determined to cast! his line.
An enormous tree overhung the stream, and, stand
ing behind It upon a great gnarled Toot, ; he dropped
the bait into a dark pool beneath, where: he knew
the water to be Very deep and where an old trout
or bass would prefer to lie during the warm days
But they spent the days in the boush housn nnrf
slept at home after that, until at last Edward's
health was quite restored, and he went, home feel
. ing like another boy, and so full of woodlore that
. sll of the other, children said be waa nuisance and
was putting cjfairs over what he had seen. 5
But that was only the desire that people who
know things have to- tell them to others, and be was
not to be blamed for that, for lots of grown people
harar the same desire. ' , .WALT JIcDOUGALL,
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