New Britain herald., 1917-09-20

hazo oks1s. Occasionally a peculiar hollow humping noise broke the usual 1nlnor sounds of the forest and final ly' a hillside or maybe a thick grow tn of trees caught and threw an echO Of human voice up the stream. The moose knew, he had carried his antlers till they attained their present magnificent spread, and
 he faded into the background of the
 forest to escape the man with the
 firestick, one of which had furroWed
 hls shoulders years ago. The mother
 Sheldrake knew, she had flown over,
 the cities of men in winters past and
 she rustled her group of "sde-whecl- ers' into nearby cover. Clarence did not know, and did not care. He had lived a hundred miles from the regu- lar haunts of man for several years. His armor was safe against anything he was aware of. What if a man was coming? Maybe there would be q canoe paddle to mangle if the man was not careful of it.
 Over the beaver dam appeared a head, and then another. then two fig ures craWled upon the mess of branches and dragged their canoe and baggage over the obstruction. In doing so they made much night work for the beavers who must keep the level of the water in the pool as it was before by repairing the spot which had been trampled and brushed down. After the fall of night the chief of the beaver band would collect his force of workers, large and small to repair the break.
 Looks like fishing remarked one of the humans to the other as the light canoe danced over the surface the deadWater What a deserted ap-
 pearance the pool now presented. The
 banks showed no life though out of the range of mans vision the cur- ious eyes of the wood folk stared at the intruders. The only break in
 the mirror like surface of the water
 marked the wake of the cedar craft
 though occasionally a light splash
 and a widening circles of nipples
 showed where hungry trout had
 ''broke" in quest of varity of diet in the shape of an insect.
 Speaking to each other at inter-
 vals of probably more than an hour
 the men who were learning the ways
 of the forest and were obeying the first rule, travel quietly and watch
 proceeded by mutual, unspoken con-
 sent to high knoll upon one side
 of the pool from which small
 trickle of water sgnalized the pres
 ence of a spring. The knoll pre-
 scented the best opportunity for look
 ing over the pool and it was there
 that a rough lean-to was built to
 house the wanderers for several days.
 As the swollen sun of vivid vel
 low was tinting the water, and a
 purple haze was settling over the
 forested slopes in the distance, the
 canoe again put forth upon the pool
 and very, very, quietly, and slowly
 proceeded up stream to point where
 quick water flowed into that backed
 Up by the beavers. Large mounds of
 sticks upon either side showed the
 home of the engineers. Probably
 these homes were even now full of
 their builders and only a wall of
 wood and mud separated the man
 from the rodent. A light switching
 announced that one of the fishermen
 were going into action and soon forty
 or fifty feet of line was dancing 9
 gorgeous fly over the water. The cast
 reached a spot where a circle of lilly
 an open spot and the fly settled upon
 the pool to be twitched for a mo-
 ment, withdrawn, and again cast It
 was not withdrawn this time. There
 was a deep swirl a Watery "thuUk'
 and a three pound trout was upon the end of forty feet of line attached
 to a. four ounce rod. A battle royal