. The oist . birds;and I am inclined to believe the latterto be true. In this respect our entiretrip of nearly three hundred seventyfive miles by water was conspicuousin the absence of bird life. True wesaw a bird life we were not so familiarwith of which I shall speak as mystory progresses, but we were im-pressed with the thought that Godplaced these feathered creatures inthe world for man, and they knowingfull well their mission, take up theirabode heroicly near those who seekto destroy much less know theirhabits, and hear so little of heir effortsto cheer the weary mind and sing theglory of
. The oist . birds;and I am inclined to believe the latterto be true. In this respect our entiretrip of nearly three hundred seventyfive miles by water was conspicuousin the absence of bird life. True wesaw a bird life we were not so familiarwith of which I shall speak as mystory progresses, but we were im-pressed with the thought that Godplaced these feathered creatures inthe world for man, and they knowingfull well their mission, take up theirabode heroicly near those who seekto destroy much less know theirhabits, and hear so little of heir effortsto cheer the weary mind and sing theglory of their maker. The Red Lake River is the outletof Red Lake. It leaves the Lake atthe southwest corner and flows in ageneral direction westward to theborder line between Minnesota andNorth Dakota where it joins the RedRiver of the North in a grand fork atGrand Forks, thence making its waynorthward througli the far famed RedRiver Valley, tlie bread basket of theworld, emptying its muddy course in 22 THE OOLOGIST. We took dinner that day at Neptune Bay —Photo by L. E. Healey the Arctic waters of the Hudson Thief River Falls, the lastlarge town up the River to Red LakeFalls, the parental home of Bud andmyself, the river leaps from one rapidsto another in its mad rush seaward,except where man has dammed itscourse in three places to force it togive of its power. It was impossibleon this account to begin our journeyby boat from home. We shipped byfreight to Thief River Falls, and Sat-urday saw us nicely on our way in theback water of the last dam. Our boatwas a sixteen foot launch with a twohorse power stationery engine. It wasequipped with all-weather top withside curtains inclosing the entire boatafter the manner of the auto, and ex-tra curtains of mosquito to proof writer built the whole outfit andinstalled the engine, and he knewevery nail and rib, every stitch andtack and he loved her, too, as a homein the wilds. Before we tied that nightto an over-hanging tree,
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