Rod and gun . x-ertion to enjoy trout fishing in this dis-trict, you get just as much exercise asyou want. When you are tired of fishing, yousimply get into your comfortable buggy,and over the best of roads, and throughscenes of varied beauty, drive to yoursummer home. For years families from various partsof the United States and Canada havebeen going to this region for the summer,most of them renting accommodation forthe season in the farm houses along thetrout streams. As the farmers in Me-donte are a very prosperous class, theircapacious homes afford all the comfortsthe most exacting could


Rod and gun . x-ertion to enjoy trout fishing in this dis-trict, you get just as much exercise asyou want. When you are tired of fishing, yousimply get into your comfortable buggy,and over the best of roads, and throughscenes of varied beauty, drive to yoursummer home. For years families from various partsof the United States and Canada havebeen going to this region for the summer,most of them renting accommodation forthe season in the farm houses along thetrout streams. As the farmers in Me-donte are a very prosperous class, theircapacious homes afford all the comfortsthe most exacting could desire. There aremany farmers who would be glad to fur-nish accommodation for summer visitorsif the latter would set forth their require-ments in one of the local papers of thedistrict. Fishermen with whom economy in theway of either time or money is an object,can easily manage to get in a day or twoof this fishing by taking the GrandTrunk to Coldwater and making one Athe hotels in that village their headquar-. Cau^ht a Snapshot of the Hxrvester and his Compaionat Work. ters. The railway, hotel and livery peo-ple will be able to direct the stranger tothe best known fishing reaches and thetrained eye of the experienced angler willlead him to spots just as good as thosecommonly fished but the merits of whichare not recognized by those unskilled inthe gentle art. My constant companion and chum,summer time, winter time, and all thetime except the hunting season, is a cer-tain little fair-haired, bright-eyed miss,we call, Bersa. That is not her baptismalname; but that is what she is known asand I will let it go at that. Perhaps I hadbetter add though, that Bersa en-joys the distinction of addressing me as••Daddy. When on the eve of leaving Ottawa forColdwater the last time she pleaded soseriously for a solemn pledge that sheshould be given a chance to try and catchone of the dear little fish with red spotsall over them, that it was impossible toresist, and the pledge was given.


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