ur canoe
with the auxiliary. On hooking a large fish, handle the rod with one
hand and with the other lay the canoe out into deep water, away from
all entangling alliances. You may be surprised to find how easily, with
a little practice, you can make a two-pound trout or bass tow the canoe
the way you want it to go.

In floating for deer, use the double-blade only in making the passage
to the ground; then take it apart and lay it inboard, using only the
little paddle to float with, tying it to a rib with a yard and a half
of linen line. On approaching a deer near enough to shoot, let go the
paddle, leaving it to drift alongside while you attend to venison.

Beneath a hemlock grim and dark,
Where shrub and vine are intertwining,
Our shany stands, well roofed with bark,
On which the cheerful blaze is shining.
The smoke ascends in spiral wreath,
With upward curve the sparks are trending;
The coffee kettle sings beneath
Where sparks and smoke with leaves are blending.

And on the stream a light canoe
Floats like a freshly fallen feather,
A fairy thing, that will not do
For broader seas and stormy weather.
Her sides no thicker than the shell
Of Ole Bull's Cremona fiddle,
The mall who rides her will do well
To part his scalp-lock in the middle.

Forest Runes --Nessmuk

CHAPTER X
Odds And Ends--Where To Go For An Outing--Why A Clinker?--Boughs And
Browse

THE oft-recurring question as to where to go for the outing, can
hardly be answered at all satisfactorily. In a general way, any place
may, and ought to be, satisfactory, where there are fresh green woods,
pleasant scenery, and fish and game plenty enough to supply the camp
abundantly, with boating facilities and pure water.

"It's more in the man than it is in the land," and there are thousands
of such places on the waters of the Susquehanna, the Delaware, the
rivers and lakes of Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and Canada.

Among the lakes of Central New York one may easily select a camping
ground, healthy, pleasant, easily reached and with the advantage of
cheapness. A little too much civilization, perhaps; but the farmers are
friendly and kindly disposed to all summer outers who behave like
gentlemen.

For fine forest scenery and unequaled canoeing facilities, it must be
admitted that the Adirondack region stands at the head. There is also
fine fishing and good hunting, for those who know the right places to
go for deer and