Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-06-20
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ON THE JIM RIVER.

EIO"efS. WIKI in Easy SoiSClChCCs
There is the Place TO go.
1t was very pleasant Oh the river yes
terday, and Kosciusko's boats were all
taken by parties who rowed up and
down the placid stream, thor
oughly enjoying the summer scene. The
trees are .reener than the greenest, and
the birds thicker than in paradise, one
would think, from the multitude of sweet
descants they shower upon the passer-by
from bougL and bush. All the birds of
the north are now ensconced in their
homes'on the river bank, from the hut-
tering swallow whose house is under
ground, to the lighting bee martin,
champion OF the woods, with domicile in
some tree top. Wild canaries shoot like
yellow CLEANS through dark, shady
spots; the blackbird's glistenins crest is
seen everywhere on the bank, its possess
or diligently grubbing for grubs. The
opechee, the Indians red-breast that
Longfellow tells us Of, gets on a high
branch in the soft sunset, and delivers
himself up to the thickest, fast, sweet
warble that he can, while the brown and
modest thrush, specI1ied with gold dust
true indicator of her worth-sings
softly to herself. and shuts ont the sound
of every other sonssJer by her incompar-
able melody. The red-headed wood
pecker jerks his course along to some
dead limb and there beats loud rat-tat
accompaniment to the chorus Of all the
other birds. A pair If trim anu restless
snipe skip along a muddy place and
peep to each other about the chances for
Il meal. And when one OF these slim
fellows walks down to a bit OF water and
carefully washes of the mud from his
yellow stills, which he uses for legs, in
terest in the snipe family grows apace.
Muskrats are numerous; and scarcely
is the wake of one lost IN the water or
tue rlppies rauru uru~r 1rs,7 aas.~ al
neighboring hole, than the path of an
other rat is seen shimmcrlng after him,
/, little ways ahead. The rats are nnus-
uallv tame this spring, aad. occaslonaily
one will Let a boat get close to him as he
sits in ball on the bank, chewing green
leaves for tobacco, and staring sharply
at the strangers with a crafty eye.
The wild rose has hung out to the sun
and air her pink garments, and every
bank of bushes is thickly covered with
the fragrant ornaments. Grass flowers,
pussy willows and wild mustard are
everywhere along the bank, and gentle
shower only delays the up-springfng OF
hundreds Of nameless little blossoms that
decorate so artisticalIy the grass clumps
of the grove.
No stream like the jim is worthy un-
less it has swimming hole where the
BOYS churn the water and dive the far
thest. A sloping bank, worn smooth
by sliders, carries them into cool, deep
place near Mayor Ful]er's grove. and
high runs the merriment there most
every afternoon.
The little rlver is indeed worth visit.
It's attractions are all the more surpris-
ing because 50 close at hand. and rs yet
comparatively unknown. Several fami.
lies-old folks and children-spent. a
pleasant hour or so, yesterday, on the
stream, while in the evening young men
and maidens pretended to row some. but
mostly dipped and .lrlfted, other things
occupying the mind.
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