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'Keeper of the
•Trees"
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(8y M148. M. C. DOIG)
(Continued from last week)
"I wouldn't mind; helping some
syrup maker take up his buckets,"
continued, Nels. "Ell bet there are
lots qt people who haven't got
their syrup .equipment gathered up
yet. I wouldn't mind stacking
buckets and pulling spiles and
such."
"Donft worry about finding work
to do—not at this time of year in
the country. The trouble will
probably be to get away from im-
portunate farmers who want to
give us the key to the place in
return for a little labor. Farms
are getting to be more and more
one-man affairs. The day is past
when one hundred acres could keep
a man and his wife and eight chil-
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dren going from morning until
night."
Nels gave a little shiver of de-
light.
"How Iong will it take us to set
out the little trees, Granddads?
Doesn't it beat everything how
things change? Ever since I knew
I was coming to spend the Easter
holidays withI've
you again,
thought of nothing but the fun it
would lie setting out the trees. And
now I'm fairly itching to get them
set out and then away!"
II
The :pilgrims were ready to leave.
Jake Hallett would come over night
and morning to milk the cows, feed
the hens and pigeons, and do the
chores. In return, he would get the
cream and the eggs. This was a
good bargain for Hallett. Colin's
cows and hens were not kept for
looks.
Each carried his own sleeping
bag, two pairs of extra socks,. a
towel and some soap. The camera
and film were carried by Colin in
a waterproof bag, while Nels took
•- • •
•
MODERN ALUMINUM alloys seem
tough enough to take almost
anything. For instance, one
manufacturer uses aluminum
for those little electrically driven
cars the kids love to climb into
at carnivals and fairs. The idea
is to whirl around at high speed
exchanging spine -shattering
bumps with other "motorists".
They actually stand up under
this treatment (the cars, we
mean). Our own Alcan research-
ers are constantly developing
and testing new applications,
'better products, improved
production techniques. There's
always something new in alum-
inum! Aluminum Company of
Canada. Ltd. (Alcan).
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charge at the frying van .an4 'tel
pail. They expected to buy or work
for bread, eggs and meat.' at the,
farmhouses as they passett. It was
agreed that they would only worts
in the morning for anything they
wanted and not even then unless
they felt like It. Both pilgrims had
been up at dawn before. They knew
what a perfect hour of the day it
could be, and how the thotight of
duty and the drive of necessity
could spoil it,
"We'll always keep a. little flour
or oatmeal on hand," said Colin.
"So we can sneak off before the
folks are up if we want to. There's
hardly any farmer who would
grudge us an egg or two to cook
upon the river bank, or a cup of
milk to wash it down with. Thank
goodness, I gave up smoking years
ago, so they won't mind letting us
sleep in their barns if it's a wet
night. We should figure on having
to spend one or two nights under
a roof, my chela. April can be
mighty damp sometimes. And you
wouldn't want your old, Lama's
rheumatism to come back."
Nels leaped into the air and
cracked his heels together twice
before touching the floor.
"But, Grandad, that's part of the
fun! . Not knowing what the wea-
ther will he or whether we'll be
welcomed or kicked out of places,
or have the ddg set on us."
"That's one thing I'n; not afraid
of—dogs," said Colin. ."And it's
too early for bulls to be in the
fields. Maybe that will be one of
the things we'll have to do for a
meal," he said, meditatively. "Feed
the bull."
III
The Little Beaver river could on-
ly be called a river iu the spring.
By midsummer it had become a
creek, a mere trickle of water, and
in especially dry years it shad been
known to dry up completely.
But in the third week of April
it was a thing of beauty and a
joy, if not forever, at least for the
balance of the month. With the
first thaw the water of the river
was the color of the Clay on it's
banks, and many a ton of good top
soil from the farmers' fields went
downstream to the Great Lakes.
But the spring freshet was past
and the water ran elear—so clear
that in the first hour of their pil-
grimage, Colin and Nels saw two
schools of lake suckers lying mo-
tionless en ,the gravel bed of the
river.'
The Little Beaver ran between
high banks in many places, but in
others is spread out across the riv-
er flats and here willows and but-
tercups flourished. The wild blue
flags or iris were shoving their
swordlike leaves above the ground
and the new cat -tails were over-
powering the old.
All the winter ice was gone, but
here and there along the banks
could be seen gouges in the clay
where an ice jam had paused for
a day or two on its journey to the
Lakes.
Many of the summer birds were
back. and: red -winged blackbirds,
killdeers, robins, looked the pil-
OW 'trig .. �� �r wit� get + AT
wee, deeiddnrg after searching
,gancp that here, at last, ware
two iu rlaus who thought tat soute-
thing• other than killing. A. nook
of nearly twenty wild canaries hov-
ered, over a newly -sown flax Held
that came close to the river's bank,
and by nine o'clock they had seen
two Muskrats, had startled a flock
of wild ducks, and roused a lonely
crane who 'flapped slowly and ma-
jestically ahead. of them up the
river.
By eleven o'clock Nels,felt that
he would surely die if he did not
eat soon. So they stopped in the
receding river had left pieces of
drift wood and dried river 'grass in
a little hollow, and had the first
dinner of their journey. Never had
anything tasted asgood as that
bacon and those eggs and the bread
fried in the dripping. Colin. in-
sisted
nsisted on Nels drinking tea rather
than the unboiled river water.
"If yeti are going to see as much
of the world as you say you. are,"
said Colin, "you may as well get
into the habit of taking all your
drinks boiled. Tea is what made
the Chinese great. Not that there
is anything in. the leaf itself, you
understand, but the custom of -eat-
ing hot food and drinking hot bev-
erages is a good one to acquire,
especially in places where the sani-
tation is elementary."
k "There was a traveller lectured
us in school last winter," said Neis.
"And he said the Eskimos ate
nearly all their food raw, fish and
everything."
"That's different," countered Col-
in, dropping three teaspoons of tea
into the can of boiling water and
setting it on one of the flat stones
that formed their fireplace. "In
Es.kinno land a germ has such a
struggle to survive that it hasn't
enough energy left to cause people
trouble. But how they do multiply
when the thermometer reaches the
nineties and over! Remember
that."
When the simple meal was ov-
er and the cups and frying pan
washed and set in the sun to dry,
Nets and Colin stretched them-
selves on their sleeping bags and
looked up into the blue of the
April sky. A soft spring south
wind rippled the water and bent
the tall river grass before it. A
teeter -snipe dashed hastily across
the ground, calling tee-wheef, tee-
wheet, and balanced on a stone not
ten feet from their heads. But the
While we; sy`capathise with Mi
Robert' Thogison,,pt our rifiage, on
the sad aeeoidetilt to diel grand
Pilgrims' were too full and too mazy
to bother trying to get a picture of
him. There would be other days
and other teeter -snipes, This fire,'
day all they wanted: to do was
lie on their backs with half-closed
eyesbeneath the April sun and
thank God they were not as other
men. Half a farm away they could
hear a man urging on and stop-
ping his horses with "get-ups" and
"whoas," interspersed with an oc-
casional oath. The fact that
somebody else was working while
they lay idle added enormously to
their feeling of holiday.
In his younger days Colin had
been a lover of nature poetry and
now he lay staring dreamily into
the blue trying to recall for his
own and Nels' edification some of
those old loves of his.
"There are two or three volumes
of Carman in the attic," he told
Nels. "We should have brought
them with u& Listen:
"Make me over, Mother April,
When the sap begins to stir!
Make me man or make me wo-
man,
Make me oaf or ape or human,
Cup of flower or cone of fir;
Make me anything but neuter
When the sap begins to stir!"
"That is the last verse, I think.
Just a minute now. •There's more
just around the corner of my mind.
"Make me over In the morning
From the rag bag of the world."
"That's another couple of lines.
Pretty good, eh? Here's some
more:"
"Let me hear the far, low sum-
mons,
When the silver winds return;
(silver winds return. M -m -m!
Beautiful!)
Rills that run and streams that
stammer,
Goldenwing with his loud ham-
mer,
Icy brooks that brawl and clamor
Where the—something or other—
burn;
Let me hearken to the calling,
When the silver winds return."
. "Don't you wish we had Carman
with us now?" There was no an-
swer. Five o'clock in the morning
was too early in the morning for
Nels. He was sound asleep.
(Continued Next Week)
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