. Days in the open. o his heart. Georgeseemed to have lost his fear of the Preacher,and for the remainder of the night each triedto use the other as a stove. Each failed ofabsolute success. It is evident that the teller of this story has vio- 46 DAYS IN THE OPEN lated one of the fundamental rules of homiletics,and made his porch too large for the house. Thereremains a whole forenoon of fishing to be dis-posed of and no time to tell about it. But if wehad unlimited space at our command, who could fit-tingly describe even an hour of successful dalliancewith the festive trout? There were no more
. Days in the open. o his heart. Georgeseemed to have lost his fear of the Preacher,and for the remainder of the night each triedto use the other as a stove. Each failed ofabsolute success. It is evident that the teller of this story has vio- 46 DAYS IN THE OPEN lated one of the fundamental rules of homiletics,and made his porch too large for the house. Thereremains a whole forenoon of fishing to be dis-posed of and no time to tell about it. But if wehad unlimited space at our command, who could fit-tingly describe even an hour of successful dalliancewith the festive trout? There were no more of the size of the politicalboss and his friend; but how they came! Some-thing over fifty trout preferred the Preacher to thetown-meeting, and when noon came that meetinghad adjourned sine die—-especially die. Somewere eaten for dinner, some were on the table at theDoaktown hotel that night, George had what hewanted, and twenty-one went back with the proudPreacher to Fredericton the next morning. IN THENORTH WOODS. This simple fact, so glad in itself,so obvious to one who keeps hiseyes open in Natures world, is men-tioned here by way of invitation—to assure the reader if he but enterthis School of the Woods, he willsee little of that which made hisheart ache in his own sad world;no tragedies or footlight effects ofwoes or struggles but rather awholesome, cheerful life to makeone glad and send him back to hisown school with deeper wisdom andrenewed courage.—William , School of the Woods.
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