Rod and gun . The Lady Evelyn. The Call of the Strenuous Life C. H. Hooper WHAT a fiasco the winter of 1912-13 was. One never succeededin getting the real feehng of itat all. \\ith continual thaws andrain, soft south winds and warm sun-shine, with only occasionally a touchof the old familiar cold and snow, wedid not sink into that state of thor-ough harmony with winter pursuitswhich helps one to view with ecjuan-imity, if not with actual pleasure, theprospect of five months of Canadianwinter. Just as we were anticipating acouple of weeks of ice-making weath-er, and were getting to enjoy thekee
Rod and gun . The Lady Evelyn. The Call of the Strenuous Life C. H. Hooper WHAT a fiasco the winter of 1912-13 was. One never succeededin getting the real feehng of itat all. \\ith continual thaws andrain, soft south winds and warm sun-shine, with only occasionally a touchof the old familiar cold and snow, wedid not sink into that state of thor-ough harmony with winter pursuitswhich helps one to view with ecjuan-imity, if not with actual pleasure, theprospect of five months of Canadianwinter. Just as we were anticipating acouple of weeks of ice-making weath-er, and were getting to enjoy thekeen frost-fingers on our faces, upwould go the temperature and downwould come the rain, or else the sunwould suddenly blaze out of a cloud-less sky, a warm wind fan us from thesouth, and all the cocks commenceheralding the approach of Spring. There is something about puddlesin the street, with the ripples blowingacross them that is indissolubly con- In the middle of January I sawacres of the Ottawa River, whichs
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