. Rod and gun . clear. Of its weird and sad-like cry. There the Dipper shines oer the lordly pines. And a thousand planets blink;You can see the Hand that formed the land. By Jingo! It makes one think. At the suns first ray, I goes my way, In my Silver Birch canoe,By torrent strong and portage long, Crossin a country new. I paddle on from early dawn With my light prospectors kit,Findin good health and sometimes wealth By an old time miners wit. The big trout teem in the rushin stream. And my cast is clean and true;My trusty gun misses never a one— Partridge or caribou. Ive often been to Silver
. Rod and gun . clear. Of its weird and sad-like cry. There the Dipper shines oer the lordly pines. And a thousand planets blink;You can see the Hand that formed the land. By Jingo! It makes one think. At the suns first ray, I goes my way, In my Silver Birch canoe,By torrent strong and portage long, Crossin a country new. I paddle on from early dawn With my light prospectors kit,Findin good health and sometimes wealth By an old time miners wit. The big trout teem in the rushin stream. And my cast is clean and true;My trusty gun misses never a one— Partridge or caribou. Ive often been to Silver Queen, Ive shovelled in many a mine;Across the snow to the north I go, For theres gold at Porcupine. Journey I must, for the wanderlust Burns in my blood like I was brung up in the wickiupOf a shiftless half-breed sire. But you may dwell in your town house swell, Its a sight too close for me,And Ill fool round, where^ the wolves abound. In the wilds of Temagami. Fishing in New Waters RY C. W. An Old Sport on a New Rivet, IT does not come in ones way often inthese latter days to enjoy fishing inalmost virgin waters, or, at any rate,where the trout have been so littledisturbed that they know few tricksof the trade. Such, however, was the good luck of twoof us in Northern Quebec last had gone to LaTuque, on the Cana-dian Northern, and for many miles hadfeasted our eyes on the waters we sawfrom the car windows, swift-runningstreams, with rapids and pools belowthem, where we knew the trout werewaiting for the fly, and lakes with cosyclub houses on their shores, going toshow that sportsmen had already dis-covered them. LaTuque is the jumping-ofif place onthe National Transcontinental is 126 miles from Quebec, and the lastcentre of population of greater extent than a railway construction camp orHudsons Bay post till one reaches Coch-rane, 442 miles west, and that is notmuch of a place yet. From Cochraneto Winnipeg is 776 miles—1,344 milesin a
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