. Rod and gun . red and green-wing vieing, As first to reach the wild-rice grounds,—The south bound ducks are flying. A Winters Trip Through the Algonquin National Park BY GEORGE W. BARTLETT. FEBRUARY twelfth, the day wewere to start on our two weekstrip, fell on a Friday. I recordthis fact because this was the se-cond trip last winter I started on thatsupposed unlucky day and both of thesetrips proved most pleasant and satisfac-tory from every point of view. Thetwelfth was one of those snapping, cleardays that you only find in our northernsections, and at a good altitude. of s
. Rod and gun . red and green-wing vieing, As first to reach the wild-rice grounds,—The south bound ducks are flying. A Winters Trip Through the Algonquin National Park BY GEORGE W. BARTLETT. FEBRUARY twelfth, the day wewere to start on our two weekstrip, fell on a Friday. I recordthis fact because this was the se-cond trip last winter I started on thatsupposed unlucky day and both of thesetrips proved most pleasant and satisfac-tory from every point of view. Thetwelfth was one of those snapping, cleardays that you only find in our northernsections, and at a good altitude. of some beautiful lake in its winter dressof snow and ice and its lovely pine cladislands showing through the trees! Do you want to feel your heart drawnclose to your Creator, filled with loveand admiration such as you have neverexperienced before? If so, try a tripsuch as we have had last winter and youwill receive more real instruction and ex-perience, a greater nearness to God thanyou can find in any other Three of the Rangers with the dog team. When I tell my readers it was 26 be-low zero some of them will say Noneof it for me, thank you! Could they,however, once taste the delights of sucha day in these woods and at this altitudewhere the atmosphere is dry and the skyclear they would spend their winters try-ing to find excuses for another taste of it- Oh the glory of it all, to listen to themusic of the snow shoe on the crisp snow,to ghde in and out among those grandtrees, to come out on top of a great bluffand find before you a stretch of the fin-est hardwood, with here and there a point But Ranger has the dogs hitched upand calls all aboard! So we must slipon our snowshoes and start, for we tra-vel in advance of our dogs, they bring-ing up the rear with provisions, sleep-ing bags etc., and you will see they havea good load by the cut given. They are well worth a picture, thesesame dogs. Let me give you the des-cription of them by my French Canadiancompanion: Queen, th
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