Part 1

Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by the Internet Archive

DAYS IN THE OPEN

By Lathan A. Crandall

Illustrated by Louis Rhead

Fleming H. Revell Company

1914

``_Do you know the blackened timber--do you know that racing stream

``With the raw, right-angled logjam at the end;

``And the bar of sun-wanned shingle where a man may bask and dream

``To the click of shod canoe-poles round the bend?

``It is there that we are going with our rods and reels and traces,

``To a silent smoky Indian that we know--

``To a couch of new-prilled hemlock, with the starlight on our faces,

``For the Red Gods call us out and we must go!_

`````--Rudyard Kipling,

`````The Feet of the Young Men.

_The sun was setting and vespers done, the monks came trooping ont, one by one,

And down they went through the garden trim in cassock and cowl to the river’s brim,

Every brother his rod he took, every rod had a line and hook,

Every hook had a bait so fine, and thus they sang in the even shine,

“Oh! to-morrow will be Friday, so we fish the stream to-day!

Oh! to-morrow will be Friday, so we fish the stream to-day!_”

--Benedict, To-morrow Will Be Friday.

THE BOY AND THE BROOK

```_I wind about, and in and out,

```With here a blossom sailing,

```And here and there a lusty trout,

```And here and there a grayling.