Outings and Innings in Northern Minnesota; And Along the North Shore of Lake Superior - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... "Who knows whither the clouds have tied? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache; The soul partakes the season's youth, And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth, 4 Like burned-out craters healed with snow." /. R. Lowell. NE month later we were back at the gravel pit again. This time on business. Our split bamboo rods and whole fishing outfit were at home, 270 miles away. Our business done we found ourselves at noon one fair day with four hours on our hands to be spent somehow. Suddenly Stephens said, like one of the olden time, by the side of Galilee, "I go a fishing." And as those who heard responded to Peter nearly nineteen hundred years ago, "Even so," I replied, "I also fjo with thee." "How about tackle?" "Oh, some of the men must have some." We made inquiry and a general search was instituted, resulting in one piece of light silk line four feet long, one piece of heavy cotton line six feet long, one No. 5 hook on a poor snell, one light coachman fly, and this was all. Off we went, determined to have a little fun out of it anyway. Our rods we would cut on the way to the creek. We went right through the heavy timber, intending to come to the creek a mile or so above the dam. After crossing a couple of streams and going down into and climbing out of two or three ravines, we came upon the bank of the beautiful little stream. Bordered by stately pines the stream laughed and gurgled along from pool to rapid, and from rapid to pool, as beautiful as the dream of a poet. We cut our rods. Stephens put the light silk line and the hook on a hazel brush about five feet long, baited the hook with a piece of raw beef and was ready for...