Rod and gun . d to yourvoice, peaceful or threatening, while stillthe barbarians overran Italy and huntedupon the site of Paris! What storiedlesson of the centuries is here for thosecapable of its interpretation? Is it per-haps the old truth that the simple savage,communing with the spirits of the moun-tain and the trail, comes as near the so-lution of the great questions, whence andwhither, as the hoary headed seer, richin ripened knowledge and scientific re-sult, to whom the problem still remains by some anterior race is still wit-nessed by these ancient banks wherenow the Cree dries his fis
Rod and gun . d to yourvoice, peaceful or threatening, while stillthe barbarians overran Italy and huntedupon the site of Paris! What storiedlesson of the centuries is here for thosecapable of its interpretation? Is it per-haps the old truth that the simple savage,communing with the spirits of the moun-tain and the trail, comes as near the so-lution of the great questions, whence andwhither, as the hoary headed seer, richin ripened knowledge and scientific re-sult, to whom the problem still remains by some anterior race is still wit-nessed by these ancient banks wherenow the Cree dries his fish and worshipsaccording to his lights. The gaunt, ter-rible, wolflike men, following the chang-ing centuries, have gone their way, guilt-less alike of commentator or historian,and still live and continue, men fierce inthe struggle for life, loving, hating anddying that they might exist. What won-der that men living and laboring underthese conditions lean naturally toward aworship of the great forces of Nature!. Some of the Future Generation: Crees at Albany Island. the source of the profoundest guarded and forest fringed,unmapped and unexplored, the Albany,absorbing its tributaries, flows on majes-tically to tlie sea. Awaiting mans ac-ceptance and development is its mineralwealth, uncounted and unguessed. Milesin breadth the forest followed us as weproceeded and over all brooded the calmand stillness of the primeval is to be alone; this, this is soli-tude. The drama of life as worked out Changing, ever changing, the channelsof the Albany cross from side to side asthe viashings of years undermine itsbanks. Even now in late September theleaves are beginning their voyage to thesea, and soon the silent, all covering car-pet of white will conceal the inequalitiesof the soil. The coat of the ptarmiganwill whiten and the raiment of themarten and the fox assume the winterhue. Man and beast alike must at theirperil fortify against the months of chill 12
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