As we progressed, the country grew more and more solemnly aloof1. In the Southland is a certain appearance of mobility2, lent by the deciduous3 trees, the warm sun, the intimate nooks in which grow the commoner homely4 weeds and flowers, the abundance of bees and musical insects, the childhood familiarity of the well-known birds, even the pleasantly fickle5 aspects of the skies. But the North wraps itself in a mantle6 of awe7. Great hills rest not so much in the stillness of sleep as in the calm of a mighty8 comprehension. The pines, rank after rank, file after file, are always trooping somewhere, up the slope, to pause at the crest9 before descending10 on the other side into the unknown. Bodies of water exactly of the size, shape, and general appearance we are accustomed to see dotted with pleasure craft and bordered with wharves11, summer cottages, pavilions, and hotels, accentuate12 by that very fact a solitude13 that harbours only a pair of weirdly14 laughing loons. Like the hills, these lakes are lying in a deep, still repose15, but a repose that somehow suggests the comprehending calm of those behind the veil. The whole country seems to rest in a suspense16 of waiting. A shot breaks the stillness for an instant, but its very memory is shadowy a moment after the echoes die. Inevitably17 the traveller feels thrust in upon himself by a neutrality more deadly than open hostility18 would be. Hostility at least supposes recognition of his existence, a rousing of forces to oppose him. This ignores. One can no longer wonder at the taciturnity of the men who dwell here; nor does one fail to grasp the eminent19 suitability to the country of its Indian name--the Silent Places.
Even the birds, joyful20, lively, commonplace little people that they are, draw some of this aloofness21 to themselves. The North is full of the homelier singers. A dozen species of warblers lisp music-box phrases, two or three sparrows whistle a cheerful repertoire22, the nuthatches and chickadees toot away in blissful _bourgeoisie_. And yet, somehow, that very circumstance thrusts the imaginative voyager outside the companionship of their friendliness23. In the face of the great gods they move with accustomed familiarity. Somehow they possess in their little experience that which explains the mystery, so that they no longer stand in its awe. Their everyday lives are spent under the shadow of the temple whither you dare not bend your footsteps. The intimacy24 of occult things isolates25 also these wise little birds.
The North speaks, however, only in the voices of three--the two thrushes, and the white-throated sparrow. You must hear these each at his proper time.
The hermit26 thrush you will rarely see. But late some afternoon, when the sun is lifting along the trunks of the hardwood forest, if you are very lucky and very quiet, you will hear him far in the depth of the blackest swamps. Musically expressed, his song is very much like that of the wood thrush--three cadenced27 liquid notes, a quivering pause, then three more notes of another phrase, and so on. But the fineness of its quality makes of it an entirely28 different performance. If you symbolize29 the hermit thrush by the flute30, you must call the wood thrush a chime of little tinkling31 bells. One is a rendition; the other the essence of liquid music. An effect of gold-embroidered32 richness, of depth going down to the very soul of things, a haunting suggestion of having touched very near to the source of tears, a conviction that the just interpretation33 of the song would be an equally just interpretation of black woods, deep shadows, cloistered34 sunlight, brooding hills--these are the subtle and elusive35 impressions you will receive in the middle of the ancient forest.
The olive-backed thrush you will enjoy after your day's work is quite finished. You will see him through the tobacco haze36, perched on a limb against the evening sky. He utters a loud joyful _chirp_ pauses for the attention he thus solicits37, and then deliberately38 runs up five mellow39 double notes, ending with a metallic40 "_ting_ chee chee chee" that sounds as though it had been struck on a triangle. Then a silence of exactly nine seconds and repeat. As regularly as clock-work this performance goes on. Time him as often as you will, you can never convict him of a second's variation. And he is so optimistic and willing, and his notes are so golden with the yellow of sunshine!
The white-throated sparrow sings nine distinct variations of the same song. He may sing more, but that is all I have counted. He inhabits woods, berry-vines, brules, and clearings. Ordinarily he is cheerful, and occasionally aggravating41. One man I knew he drove nearly crazy. To that man he was always saying, "_And he never heard the man say drink and the_----." Toward the last my friend used wildly to offer him a thousand dollars if he would, if he only _would_, finish that sentence. But occasionally, in just the proper circumstances, he forgets his stump42 corners, his vines, his jolly sunlight, and his delightful43 bugs44 to become the intimate voice of the wilds. It is night, very still, Very dark. The subdued45 murmur46 of the forest ebbs47 and flows with the voices of the furtive48 folk--an undertone fearful to break the night calm. Suddenly across the dusk of silence flashes a single thread of silver, vibrating, trembling with some unguessed ecstasy49 of emotion: "_Ah! poor Canada Canada Canada Canada!_" it mourns passionately50, and falls silent. That is all.
You will hear at various times other birds peculiarly of the North. Loons alternately calling and uttering their maniac51 laughter; purple finches or some of the pine sparrows warbling high and clear; the winter wren52, whose rapturous ravings never fail to strike the attention of the dullest passer; all these are exclusively Northern voices, and each expresses some phase or mood of the Silent Places. But none symbolizes53 as do the three. And when first you hear one of them after an absence, you are satisfied that things are right in the world, for the North Country's spirit is as it was.
Now ensued a spell of calm weather, with a film of haze over the sky. The water lay like quicksilver, heavy and inert54. Toward afternoon it became opalescent55. The very substance of the liquid itself seemed impregnated with dyes ranging in shade from wine colour to the most delicate lilac. Through a smoke veil the sun hung, a ball of red, while beneath every island, every rock, every tree, every wild fowl56 floating idly in a medium apparently57 too delicate for its support, lurked58 the beautiful crimson59 shadows of the North.
Hour after hour, day after day, we slipped on. Point after point, island after island, presented itself silently to our inspection60 and dropped quietly astern. The beat of paddles fitted monotonously61 into the almost portentous62 stillness. It seemed that we might be able to go on thus for ever, lapped in the dream of some forgotten magic that had stricken breathless the life of the world. And then, suddenly, three weeks on our journey, we came to a town.
It was not the typical fur town of the Far North, but it lay at the threshold. A single street, worn smooth by the feet of men and dogs, but innocent of hoofs63, fronted the channel. A board walk, elevated against the snows, bordered a row of whitewashed64 log and frame houses, each with its garden of brilliant flowers. A dozen wharves of various sizes, over whose edges peeped the double masts of Mackinaw boats, spoke65 of a fishing community. Between the roofs one caught glimpses of a low sparse66 woods and some thousand-foot hills beyond. We subsequently added the charm of isolation67 in learning that the nearest telegraph line was fifteen miles distant, while the railroad passed some fifty miles away.
Dick immediately went wild. It was his first glimpse of the mixed peoples. A dozen loungers, handsome, careless, graceful68 with the inimitable elegance69 of the half-breed's leisure, chatted, rolled cigarettes, and surveyed with heavy-eyed indolence such of the town as could be viewed from the shade in which they lay. Three girls, in whose dark cheeks glowed a rich French comeliness70, were comparing purchases near the store. A group of rivermen, spike-booted, short-trousered, reckless of air, with their little round hats over one ear, sat chair-tilted outside the "hotel." Across the dividing fences of two of the blazoned71 gardens a pair of old crones gossiped under their breaths. Some Indians smoked silently at the edge of one of the docks. In the distance of the street's end a French priest added the quaintness72 of his cassock to the exotic atmosphere of the scene. At once a pack of the fierce sledge-dogs left their foraging73 for the offal of the fisheries, to bound challenging in the direction of poor Deuce. That highbred animal fruitlessly attempted to combine dignity with a discretionary lurking74 between our legs. We made demonstrations75 with sticks, and sought out the hotel, for it was about time to eat.
We had supper at a table with three Forest Rangers76, two lumber-jacks, and a cat-like handsome "breed" whose business did not appear. Then we lit up and strolled about to see what we could see.
On the text of a pair of brass78 knuckles79 hanging behind the hotel bar I embroidered many experiences with the lumberjack. I told of a Wisconsin town where an enforced wait of five hours enabled me to establish the proportion of fourteen saloons out of a total of twenty frame buildings. I descanted craftily80 on the character of the woodsman out of the woods and in the right frame of mind for deviltry. I related how Jack77 Boyd, irritated beyond endurance at the annoyances81 of a stranger, finally with the flat of his hand boxed the man's head so mightily82 that he whirled around twice and sat down.
"Now," said Jack softly, "be more careful, my friend, or next time I'll _hit_ you." Or of a little Irishman who shouted to his friends about to pull a big man from pounding the life quite out of him, "Let him alone! let him alone! I may be on top myself in a few minutes!" And of Dave Walker, who fought to a standstill with his bare fists alone five men who had sworn to kill him. And again of that doughty83 knight84 of the peavie who, when attacked by an axe85, waved aside interference with the truly dauntless cry, "Leave him be, boys; there's an axe between us!"
I tried to sketch86, too, the drive, wherein a dozen times in an hour these men face death with a smile or a curse--the raging untamed river, the fierce rush of the logs, the cool little human beings poising87 with a certain contemptuous preciosity on the edge of destruction as they herd88 their brutish multitudes.
There was Jimmy, the river boss, who could not swim a stroke, and who was incontinently swept over a dam and into the boiling back-set of the eddy89 below. Three times, gasping90, strangling, drowning, he was carried in the wide swirl91 of the circle, sometimes under, sometimes on top. Then his knee touched a sand-bar, and he dragged himself painfully ashore92. He coughed up a quantity of water, and gave vent93 to his feelings over a miraculous94 escape. "Damn it all!" he wailed95, "I lost my peavie!"
"On the Paint River drive one spring," said I, "a jam formed that extended up river some three miles. The men were working at the breast of it, some underneath96, some on top. After a time the jam apparently broke, pulled downstream a hundred feet or so, and plugged again. Then it was seen that only a small section had moved, leaving the main body still jammed, so that between the two sections lay a narrow stretch of open water. Into this open water one of the men had fallen. Before he could recover, the second or tail section of the jam started to pull. Apparently nothing could prevent him from being crushed. A man called Sam--I don't know his last name--ran down the tail of the first section, across the loose logs bobbing in the open water, seized the victim of the accident by the collar, desperately97 scaled the face of the moving jam, and reached the top just as the two sections ground together with the brutish noise of wrecking98 timbers. It was a magnificent rescue. Any but these men of iron would have adjourned99 for thanks and congratulations.
"Still retaining his hold on the other man's collar, Sam twisted him about and delivered a vigorous kick. '_There_, damn you!' said he. That was all. They fell to work at once to keep the jam moving."
I instanced, too, some of the feats100 of river-work these men could perform. Of how Jack Boyd has been known to float twenty miles without shifting his feet, on a log so small that he carried it to the water on his shoulder; of how a dozen rivermen, one after the other, would often go through the chute of a dam standing101 upright on single logs; of O'Donnell, who could turn a somersault on a floating pine log; of the birling matches, wherein two men on a single log try to throw each other into the river by treading, squirrel fashion, in faster and faster rotation102; of how a riverman and spiked103 boots and a saw-log can do more work than an ordinary man with a rowboat.
I do not suppose Dick believed all this--although it was strictly104 and literally105 true--but his imagination was impressed. He gazed with respect on the group at the far end of the street, where fifteen or twenty lumber-jacks were interested in some amusement concealed106 from us.
"What do you suppose they are doing?" murmured Dick, awestricken.
"Wrestling, or boxing, or gambling107, or jumping," said I.
We approached. Gravely, silently, intensely interested, the cock-hatted, spikeshod, dangerous men were playing--croquet!
The sight was too much for our nerves. We went away.
The permanent inhabitants of the place we discovered to be friendly to a degree.
The Indian strain was evident in various dilution108 through all. Dick's enthusiasm grew steadily109 until his artistic110 instincts became aggressive, and he flatly announced his intention of staying at least four days for the purpose of making sketches111. We talked the matter over. Finally it was agreed. Deuce and I were to make a wide circle to the north and west as far as the Hudson's Bay post of Cloche, while Dick filled his notebook. That night we slept in beds for the first time.
That is to say, we slept until about three o'clock. Then we became vaguely112 conscious, through a haze of drowse--as one becomes conscious in the pause of a sleeping-car--of voices outside our doors. Some one said something about its being hardly much use to go to bed. Another hoped the sheets were not damp. A succession of lights twinkled across the walls of our room, and were vaguely explained by the coughing of a steamboat. We sank into oblivion until the calling-bell brought us to our feet.
I happened to finish my toilet a little before Dick, and so descended113 to the sunlight until he might be ready. Roosting on a gray old boulder114 ten feet outside the door were two figures that made me want to rub my eyes.
The older was a square, ruddy-faced man of sixty, with neatly115 trimmed, snow-white whiskers. He had on a soft Alpine116 hat of pearl gray, a modishly117 cut gray homespun suit, a tie in which glimmered118 an opal pin, wore tan gloves, and had slung120 over one shoulder by a narrow black strap121 a pair of field-glasses.
The younger was a tall and angular young fellow, of an eager and sophomoric122 youth. His hair was very light and very smoothly123 brushed, his eyes blue and rather near-sighted, his complexion124 pink, with an obviously recent and superficial sunburn, and his clothes, from the white Panama to the broad-soled low shoes, of the latest cut and material. Instinctively125 I sought his fraternity pin. He looked as though he might say "Rah! Rah!" something or other. A camera completed his outfit126.
Tourists! How in the world did they get here? And then I remembered the twinkle of the lights and the coughing of the steamboat. But what in time could they be doing here? Picturesque127 as the place was, it held nothing to appeal to the Baedeker spirit. I surveyed the pair with some interest.
"I suppose there is pretty good fishing around here," ventured the elder.
He evidently took me for an inhabitant. Remembering my faded blue shirt and my floppy128 old hat and the red handkerchief about my neck and the moccasins on my feet, I did not blame him.
"I suppose there are bass129 among the islands," I replied.
We fell into conversation. I learned that he and his son were from New York.
He learned, by a final direct question which was most significant of his not belonging to the country, who I was. By chance he knew my name. He opened his heart.
"We came down on the _City of Flint_," said he. "My son and I are on a vacation. We have been as far as the Yellowstone, and thought we would like to see some of this country. I was assured that on this date I could make connection with the _North Star_ for the south. I told the purser of the _Flint_ not to wake us up unless the _North Star_ was here at the docks. He bundled us off here at three in the morning. The _North Star_ was not here; it is an outrage130!"
He uttered various threats.
"I thought the _North Star_ was running away south around the Perry Sound region," I suggested.
"Yes, but she was to begin to-day, June 16, to make this connection." He produced a railroad folder131. "It's in this," he continued.
"Did you go by that thing?" I marvelled132.
"Why, of course," said he.
"I forgot you were an American," said I. "You're in Canada now."
He looked his bewilderment, so I hunted up Dick. I detailed133 the situation. "He doesn't know the race," I concluded. "Soon he will be trying to get information out of the agent. Let's be on hand."
We were on hand. The tourist, his face very red, his whiskers very white and bristly, marched importantly to the agent's office. The latter comprised also the post-office, the fish depot134, and a general store. The agent was for the moment dickering _in re_ two pounds of sugar. This transaction took five minutes to the pound. Mr. Tourist waited. Then he opened up. The agent heard him placidly135, as one who listens to a curious tale.
"What I want to know is, where's that boat?" ended the tourist.
"Couldn't say," replied the agent.
"Aren't you the agent of this company?"
"Sure," replied the agent.
"Then why don't you know something about its business and plans and intentions?"
"Couldn't say," replied the agent.
"Do you think it would be any good to wait for the _North Star_? Do you suppose they can be coming? Do you suppose they've altered the schedule?"
"Couldn't say," replied the agent.
"When is the next boat through here?"
I listened for the answer in trepidation136, for I saw that another "Couldn't say" would cause the red-faced tourist to blow up. To my relief, the agent merely inquired,--
"North or south?"
"South, of course. I just came from the north. What in the name of everlasting137 blazes should I want to go north again for?"
"Couldn't say," replied the agent. "The next boat south gets in next week, Tuesday or Wednesday."
"Next week!" shrieked138 the tourist.
"When's the next boat north?" interposed the son.
"To-morrow morning."
"What time?"
"Couldn't say; you'd have to watch for her."
"That's our boat, dad," said the young man.
"But we've just _come_ from there!" snorted his father; "it's three hundred miles back. It'll put us behind two days. I've got to be in New York Friday. I've got an engagement." He turned suddenly to the agent. "Here, I've got to send a telegram."
The agent blinked placidly. "You'll not send it from here. This ain't a telegraph station."
"Where's the nearest station?"
"Fifteen mile."
Without further parley139 the old man turned and walked, stiff and military, from the place. Near the end of the broad walk he met the usual doddering but amiable140 oldest inhabitant.
"Fine day," chirped141 the patriarch in well-meant friendliness. "They jest brought in a bear cub142 over to Antoine's. If you'd like to take a look at him, I'll show you where it is."
The tourist stopped short and glared fiercely.
"Sir," said he, "damn your bear!" Then he strode on, leaving grandpa staring after him.
In the course of the morning we became quite well acquainted, and he resigned. The son appeared to take somewhat the humorous view all through the affair, which must have irritated the old gentleman. They discussed it rather thoroughly143, and finally decided144 to retrace145 their steps for a fresh start over a better-known route. This settled, the senior seemed to feel relieved of a weight. He even saw and relished146 certain funny phases of the incident, though he never ceased to foretell147 different kinds of trouble for the company, varying in range from mere119 complaints to the most tremendous of damage suits.
He was much interested, finally, in our methods of travel, and then, in logical sequence, with what he could see about him. He watched curiously148 my loading of the canoe, for I had a three-mile stretch of open water, and the wind was abroad. Deuce's empirical boat wisdom aroused his admiration149. He and his son were both at the shore to see me off.
Deuce settled himself in the bottom. I lifted the stern from the shore and gently set it afloat. In a moment I was ready to start.
"Wait a minute! Wait a minute!" suddenly cried the father.
I swirled150 my paddle back. The old gentleman was hastily fumbling151 in his pockets. After an instant he descended to the water's edge.
"Here," said he, "you are a judge of fiction; take this."
It was his steamboat and railway folder.
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