. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. I. For maple bowed ranches 3 size of )ortions. i-as con- met tbe led with the first ilong the i-ent, this e stream, lumps of ihe water, ice forms ng to the ff, called md make is every (T masses, however, aain open lybernate intensely lake their restless, weather, \es warm, WINTER NIGHTS. 293 leading the hunter a weary chase. The cock of the woodS) or the great
. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. I. For maple bowed ranches 3 size of )ortions. i-as con- met tbe led with the first ilong the i-ent, this e stream, lumps of ihe water, ice forms ng to the ff, called md make is every (T masses, however, aain open lybernate intensely lake their restless, weather, \es warm, WINTER NIGHTS. 293 leading the hunter a weary chase. The cock of the woodS) or the great red-headed woodpecker, hates the cold, and is never heard or seen in winter, except when a change is near. If on a winter's day you do hear him giving tongue âchuckling away hoarsely on the extreme summit of a giant rampikeâno matter iiow fine and bright the day, be sure tiiat to-morrow it will rain. In the fall of the year beavers oil themselves at the approach of wet weather; and the hunters at that season form an opinion as to the severity of the coming winter by the thickness of the roofs of these animals' lodges. As I have remarked elsewhere, actual cold as indicated by the tliermometer is lightly felt, but a mach less degree of frost accompanied by a high wind and j^oudre of drift- ing snow penetrates the warmest clothing, and chills the wretched wayftirer to the marrow. Such days are for- tunately few and far between in the interior, owing to the shelter of the surrounding forests, but of frequent occur- rence on the more exposed seaboard. The nights in this country are lighter than in England, and owing to the clearness of th^ atmosphere, the moon and stars are much brighter A still, cold Canadian winter's night is one of the ''Idn;^ > ta ue seen, and to see it to per- fection one must ^^- in the woods. The stars then tppear little higher thaa tlu tree-tops, and the flashes of the aurora borealis in the north are like spectres flitcmg about in the distance; t le
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