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 "The Feet of the Young Men." 
 
 "Now the Four-way Lodge is opened ; 
 
 Now the Hunting-winds are loose; 
 
 Now the Smokes of Spring go up to clear the brain : 
 
 Now the young men's hearts are troubled 
 
 For the whisper of the Trues; 
 
 Now the Red Gods make their medicine again." 
 
 "Who hath seen the beaver busied? 
 Who hath watched the black tail mating? 
 Who hath lain alone to hear the wild-goose cry? 
 Who hath worked the chosen water where the Ouananiche is 
 
 waiting. 
 Or the sea trout's jumping-crazy for the fly?" 
 
 "He must go-go-go away from here: 
 On the other side the world he's overdue 
 'Send your road is clear before you. 
 When the old Springfret comes o'er you, 
 And the Red Gods call for you." 
 
 "So for one the wet sail arching thinugh the rainbow round the 
 
 bow, 
 And for one the creak of snow-shoes on the crust ; 
 And for one the Lakeside vigil, where the bull-moosi- leads the 
 
 cow. 
 And for one the mule-train coughing in the dust." 
 
 "Who hath smelled wood-smoke at twilight? 
 Who hath heard the birch log burning? 
 Who is quick to read the noises on the night ? 
 Let him follow with the others, for the young men's feet are 
 
 turning 
 To the camps of proved desire and known delight. 
 Do you know the blackened timber, do you know that racing 
 
 stream, 
 With the raw right-angled log-jam at the end' 
 And the bar of sun-warmed shingle where a man may bask and 
 
 dream, 
 
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 To the click of shod canoe-poles round the liend r 
 It is there that we are going with our rods and reels and traces, 
 To a silent, smoky Indian that wc know. 
 
 To a couch of ncw-pullcd hemlock with the starlight in our faces, 
 For the Red Gods call us out and we must go." 
 
 "Do you know the shallow Baltic where the seas are quick and 
 
 short : 
 Where the bluff Ice hoarded fishing luggers ride? 
 Do you know the joys of threshing leagues to leeward of your port 
 On a coast you've lost the chart of overside? 
 It is there that I am going, with an extra hand to bale her. 
 Just one single 'longshore loafer tliat I know, 
 He can take his chance of drowning while I sail and sail and 
 
 sail her, 
 For the Red Gods call me out and I must go." 
 
 "Do you know the pile-built village where the sago-dealers trade? 
 Do you know the reek of fish and wet bamboo? 
 Do you know the dripping silence of the orchid-scented glade, 
 When the blazoned bird-winged butterflies flap through? 
 It is there that I am going with my camphor, net and boxes. 
 To a gentle yellow pirate that I know ; 
 To my little wailing leinurs, to the palms and flying foxes; 
 For the Red Gnds call me out and I must go." 
 
 "Do you know the world's white-roof tree, do you know that windy 
 
 rift, 
 Where the baffling mountain eddies chop and change? 
 Do you know the long day's patience, belly down on frozen drift. 
 While the head of heads is feeding out of range? 
 It is there that I am going, where the boulders and the snow lie, 
 With a trusty nimble tracker that I know. 
 I have sworn an oath to keep it on the horns of Ovis Poli, 
 And the Red Gods call me out and I must go." 
 
 "Now the four-way lodge is opened, now the smokes of council rise ; 
 Pleasant smokes, ere yet 'twixt trail and trail they choose; 
 Now the girths and ropes are tested, now they pack their last 
 
 supplies : 
 Now our young men go to dance before the Trues, 
 Who shall meet them at those altars, who shall light them to 
 
 the shrine? 
 Velvet-footed who shall guide them to their goal? 
 Unto each the voice and vision, unto each his spoor and sign; 
 Lonely mountain in the northland, misty sweat-bath 'neath the line; 
 .A.nd for e.nch a man that knows his naked sou!; 
 White or yellow, black or copper, he is waiting as a lover, 
 
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 Smoke of funnel, dust of hooves or beat of train ; 
 
 Where the higli grass liidrs tlie horseman or thp glariiiR tlat^ 
 
 discover ; 
 Where the steamer hails tlie landing or the surf hoat brings the 
 
 rover ; 
 Where the rails run out in sand-drift . . . Quick ! Ah. heave the 
 
 ■ camp-kit over ; 
 For the Red Gods make their medicine again ; 
 And we go-go-go away from here ; 
 On the other side the world we're overdue. 
 Send the road is clear before you 
 When the old Spring-fret comes u'er you 
 And the Red finds call for you." 
 
"The Feet of the Young Men." 
 
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 I HIS is to many the most beautiful of Kipling's poems. It recalls 
 
 I memories of delightful days in the woods, on the seas and lakes 
 
 I and rivers and prairies, and in camp. By simple, yet artistically 
 
 worded questions, left unanswered, it describes nature in her most 
 
 charming dress and paints a picture in almost every line. 
 
 The title of the poem but poorly indicates its scope. The idea is 
 that everywhere, at some time of the year, the feet of the young men 
 are drawn towards their favorite outdoor haunts. They are called 
 by an irresistible voice, and must go. Each has his favorite pursuit and 
 favorite place. For one, yachting ; for another, hunting ; for a third, 
 shooting; for a fourth, fishing; and so on. 'Tis after the winter is 
 over, and when the days lengthen and the air is balmy and nature 
 herself comes out in leaf and flower and beauty, when the ice has 
 gone and the streams and lakes are free, that the desire to get away 
 from indoor life and the work and bustle of business becomes strongest. 
 Tis then "the old spring fret comes o'er you" : but there is a fall fret 
 and a winter fret and a summer fret as well. 
 The opening is a reference to the spring: 
 
 "Now the Four-way Lodge is opened: 
 Now the Hunting-winds are loose: 
 Now the Smokes of Spring go up to clear the brain: 
 Now the young men's hearts are troubled 
 For the whisper of the Trues; 
 Now the Red Gods make their medicine again."' 
 
 When the subject is outdoor life and hunting, thoughts of our 
 North American Indians, and of their lives in the woods and on the 
 prairies, naturally arise in the Anglo-Saxon mind, ft is therefore 
 fitting and pleasing that the author should have commenced with 
 metaphors suggested by Indian customs and mythology. "The Four- 
 way Lodge," a lodge with openings to the four points of the 
 compass, where the Indians meet every spring to hold council and to 
 
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 discuss questions concerninjEj the tribe or banri and to commence the 
 season's hunting- and quest for food. Here it refers to the world's 
 hunting- lodge itself, closed during winter, and imprisoning the luuUing 
 winds, the winds which carry to all quarters of the globe the medicine 
 of the Red C-ods. medicine which, when taken by the young men. tits 
 them for the chase and brings on that restless feeliig which Kipling so 
 exactly describes as "the old spring fret." 
 
 "The Smokes of Si)ring go up to clear the brain." The metaphor 
 here is suggested b\ an Indian custom. When any important move- 
 ment of an Indian tribe is contemplated, the chiefs and head men meet 
 in council for discussion. There, during the meeting, they smoke their 
 pipes to clear their brains and help them in their decisions. In a sub- 
 sequent verse the four-way lodge is again mentioned, and the smokes 
 of council are referred to. 
 
 "Now the young men's hearts arc troubled for the whisper of the 
 Trues." What are the "Trues?'' Is the allusion here to some Indian 
 legend or belief, or do the Trues mean Nature herself? All that is 
 true and real as distinguished from the artificial and false? I wish 
 Kipling himself would tell us. 
 
 Our Canadian national emblem, the beaver, is honored by being 
 mentioned first in the poem ; indeed to Canada is due a liberal share 
 of the beauties which are portrayed. We know that Kipling spent 
 some time in Canada and fished on one of our salmon rivers and 
 visited our North- West. His facility for absorbing in a short time the 
 very essence and charm of what he sees is excelled only by the facility 
 with which in choice and artistic ''nguage he describes it: 
 
 "Who hath seen the beaver busied i 
 Who hath watched the black tail mating r 
 Who hath lain alone to hear the wild-goose cry? 
 
 Who hath workecf the chosen water where the Ouananiche is waiting, 
 Or the sea trout's juniping-crazy for the fly?" 
 
 All these delightfid pictures are taken from Canada. The home 
 of the beaver is with us. The black tail is one of our most beautiful 
 deer, now unhappily very scarce. In Manitoba and our North-West the 
 wild goose breeds. The Ouananiche (pronounced Win-an-ish), or 
 land-locked salmon, is found only in Canada. The rivers of the lower 
 St. Lawrence, of the Baie de Chaleur, and of the Labrador and New- 
 Brunswick and Nova Scotia coasts, abound with sea trout. 
 
 In wild goose shooting it is essential that the sportsman should lie 
 concealed and make no noise. This can be more easily accomplished 
 if he be alone, therefore 'tis usual for each sportsman to "lie alone" 
 
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 when waiting for the birds to come. While in tlie air wild geese keep 
 up a constant calling, anif many times they can be heard long before 
 bemg seen. This simple question, "Who hath lain alone to hear the 
 wild goose cry," in itself paints the picture and recalls to the sports- 
 man the hours (sometimes weary enough) spent in his "hide" or 
 "blind" waiting patiently to hear the "honk," "honk" of the old gander 
 leader, and the answering calls of the Hock behind. 
 
 "Ouananiche" is the Indian name for one of the most prized of 
 Canadian game fishes. "Tis found in greatest numbers in the upper 
 waters of the Saguenay River, as it discharges from Lake St. John. 
 Tis found also in limited numbers in a few places in the Maritime 
 Provmces. From its resemblance to a salmon 'tis thought that ori- 
 gmally its progenitors were salmon which had to come up "from the sea 
 and been "land-locked" and unable to return. They are caught by 
 fly-fishing, and give excellent sport ; in weight they run from two to 
 hve or six pounds. Here again the simple question, "Who hath worked 
 the chosen water where the Ouananiche is waiting," in itself paints the 
 picture, and recalls to the angler some of his most delightful days 
 "Worked the chosen water." To the fly-fisherman this tells the whole 
 story. 
 
 These questions naturally give rise to the querv: "Where can on.' 
 see the beaver, the black tail, the wild goose and the Ouananiche." 
 and the reply is : 
 
 "He must go-gu-go away from here : 
 On the other side the world he's overdue. 
 'Send your road is clear before you, 
 When the old Spring-fret comes o'er you. 
 And the Red Gods call for you." 
 
 Have you never been? Then go at once. You've waited too long 
 already ; you're now overdue ; and, when next year the old spring fret 
 comes o'er you, when you have taken the medicine of the Red Gods 
 and have heard them calling, pray that God send your road is clear 
 before you so that you may go again. 
 The poem continues: 
 
 ••So for one the wet sail arching through the rainbow round the bow, 
 -And for one the creak of snow-shoes on the crust; 
 And for one the Lakeside vigil, where the bull-moose leads the cow. 
 .^nd for one the mule-train coughing in the dust." 
 
 There is a picture in each of these lines. What an array of talent 
 It would take to properly illustrate the whole poem! And what a 
 variety of treatment could be applied to each idea ! 
 
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 In (leer hunting:, moose hunting' particularly, advantage is taken 
 oi the crust wliicli forms on tlu- snow when after a tliaw. it freezes 
 af,'ain. Tliis crust will generally bear a man on snousliues. but is sel- 
 dom strong enough to bear a deer or moose. A hunter on snowshoes 
 has a great advantage and <;ui readily overtake the anii 'al, hampered 
 as It is by constantly breaking through the crust.. 'Tis to this kind 
 of hunting allusion is made by the line. -'And for one the creak of snow 
 shoes on the crust." 
 
 In moose hunting in the fall 'tis not an uncommon thing for the 
 hunter to wait quietly for hours on the shore of a lake near a place 
 vvhere, fran the footprints, he knows the moose come down to drink. 
 This is "the Lakeside vigil" referred to in the line. "And for one the 
 Lakeside vigil where the bull-moose leads the cow." 
 
 Thesj two scenes are Canadian, and the author probably got in 
 Canad?. the experience or information which enabled him to .lepict 
 them so well. 
 
 Where railways do not run, especially over wide plateaux or prairie 
 cor.ntry, and where the mule is the chief mode of locomotion, for 
 sf.curity as well as for company and for carrying purposes, a mule 
 '.ram is made up and the journey is performed by all together rather 
 than singly. In the dry season the roads are very dusty, and the pass- 
 mg mule train makes it rise in clouds. 'Tis to this 'nid of travel allu 
 sion is made by the line. "And for one the mule-train coughing in the 
 dust." 
 
 To those who have camped in our woods, and especiallv to those 
 who have fished in our salmon rivers, the next verses will always be 
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 "Who hath smelled wood-smoke at twilight? 
 Who hath heard the birch log burning? 
 Who is quick to read the noises on the night? 
 
 Let him follow with the others, for the young men's feet arc turning 
 to the camps of proved desire and known delight 
 Do you know the blackened timber, cTo you know that racing stream 
 With the raw right-angled log-jam at the end? 
 
 And the bar of sun-warmed shingle where a man may bask and dream 
 lo 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 Ind'ian that we know. 
 
 To a couch of new-pulled hemlock with the starlight in our faces. 
 For the Red Gods call us out and we must go." 
 
 "Who hath smelled wood-smoke at twilight? Who hath heard 
 the birch log burning?" What a host of memories these simple ques- 
 
tioiis bring up! The camp fire, the jolly company, the stories and 
 songs, the music of the river, the canoes at the river's edge, the tents 
 white in the moonlight, and the delicious perfume of the hemlock 
 boughs on which the blankets for the beds are laid. 
 
 "To the camps of proved desire and known delight." What an 
 assurance of success is conveyed by this line. The desire has been 
 proved, and the delight is known. 
 
 In dry seasons, when every blade of grass and every leaf and twig 
 on the ground, when. the very ground itself, is parched and dry, fire 
 IS often started in tne woods in some mysterious way, and for miles 
 around it spread: and burns for man\- weeks, leaving large tracts 
 of standing timber black and charred. Many of these fires have occur- 
 red along the hillsides adjoining salmon rivers, and, though in course 
 of years the new growth has again covered the place, yet the blackened 
 tree trunks are still standing and can be seen for miles around. 
 Through the valleys between ranges of hills the river runs, a series 
 of rapids and pools from source to mouth. 
 
 In the spring, when the snow on the water-sheds melts, the river 
 becomes a torrent, carrying down trees, logs, roots and stumps torn 
 from the over-flooded banks. So great is the rush of water that the 
 greater part of this debris is carried lo the .sea, but. as the water falls 
 and as the mouth of the river is reached, where the stream is more 
 sluggish, some of the trees and logs get caught and form a jam, which 
 sometimes turns the course of the river at a right angle, a mass of 
 tangled tree trunks, branches, roots and logs. 
 
 The river is very tortuous in its course, and during the summer at 
 almost every bend there is a dry bar or beach of gravel, pebbles and 
 small flat stones, called "shingle." 
 
 The current is so swift even in the places where the surface 
 of the water is not broken into rapids, that in ascending in 
 canoes (the only practicable mode of navigation) the paddle 
 is useless. The canoe-men use poles, ten or twelve feet in length, 
 with which they shove the canoe along. These poles are 
 pointed at one end and "shod" with an iron socket to prevent 
 them from being bruised and broken by contact with the stones 
 on the bottom. When poling one man stands in the bow. the other 
 in the stern of the canoe. They work together, at each stroke lifting 
 their poles at the came time and shoving them down at the same time 
 and on the same side. They are usually well-made, athletic fellows, 
 and their action is the very poetry of motion. Of necessity the canoe 
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 a click is heard, wiiich to the hsiieniian is sweet music indeed. This 
 cHck can often be heard before the canoe appears around the bend. 
 How beautifully all is described, and how vividly the pictures are 
 painted ! In some rivers the canoc-men are Indians, and very skilful 
 guides they make. "A silent, smoky Indian." Did three words ever 
 before so well describe an Indian guide ? 
 
 "Traces" here refer to an arrant^ement of hooks used in fishing. 
 
 From fishing tlie ])oem turns to yachting— 
 
 ••Do you know the shallow Baltic where the seas are .luick and short- 
 Where the bluff lee boarded tishinp luggers ride? 
 Do you know the joys of threshing leagues to leeward of your port 
 On a coast you^ve lost the chart of oversi^le? 
 It is there that 1 am going, with an ext and to bale her 
 Just one single 'longshore loafer that I know, 
 
 He can take his chance of drowning while I sail and sail and sail her 
 bor the Red Gods call me out and 1 must go." 
 
 "Leeboarded fishing lugger." A fishing boat with -lee boards" 
 hangmg over the side to check drifting, as distinguished from a centre 
 board, which is let down into the water through the keel. 
 
 "Just one single 'longshore loafer.' " A perfect description of the 
 kind of man met with by the summer tourist on every coast ; one who 
 would rather spend his time loafing about the shore on the chance of 
 a few days' or hours' lazy employment in attendance upon a sports- 
 man, and would rather take his chance of drowning, than accept steadv 
 employment on the farm or in the mill or at the docks. What a 
 charming recklessness and abandon this verse portrays! 
 
 "Single" here is probably used in contradistinction to "married." 
 
 The scene is now changed to the East Indian Archipelago, where 
 the sago palms grow ; where the earth is wet and swampv • where 
 the lovely orchids flourish: where the graceful active little lemurs 
 gambol among the trees, and where the flying foxes or fox bats dart 
 through the air in countless numbers. 
 
 "Do you know the pile-built village where the sago-dealers trade' 
 Do you know the reek of tish and wet bamboo? 
 Do you know the dripping silence of the orchid-scented glade 
 When the blazoned bird-winged butterflies flap through? 
 It is there that I am going with my camphor, net and boxes 
 To a gentle yellow pirate that I know; 
 
 To my little wailing lemurs, to the palms and flying foxes; 
 For the Red Gods call me out and I must go." 
 
 What artist, except in imagination, could paint the picture here 
 
described ? An orchid-scented glade ; fantastic and wonderfully colore. 1 
 flowers, dotted here and there above and below, beads of moisture 
 standnig on every leaf; no sound of any kind to break the silence save 
 the patter of the falling drops as a butterfly, rivalling in color the 
 orchids themselves, flaps from flower to flower. "The dripping silence 
 of the orchid-scented glade, when the blazoned bird winged butter 
 Hies flap through." Exquisite poetry and word painting! The "-entl- 
 yellow pirate" is a fitting guide to so gentle a scene. 
 
 "Pile-built village." In parts of Africa, the East Indies and other 
 places where the sago palm grows best and where the sago dealers go 
 to buy, the whole ground, in the rainy seasons, is covered with water 
 and the natives who live there build their houses or huts on posts 
 or pdes, several feet above the surface. Whole villages are thus built 
 The lemur is an animal found in Madagascar and some of the 
 adjacent islands ; it somewhat resembles a monkev. and is about the 
 size of a domestic cat. There are many varieties, but the ring-tailed 
 lemur IS the most beautiful. It is extremely gentle and active an,! 
 graceful in its movements, and utters at intervals a little plaintive crv 
 or wail something like that of a cat. 
 
 The flying fox, or fox bat. is also found in Madagascar and the 
 neighboring islands and in other places. It has a long pointed muzzle 
 and wooly fur covering the neck, and resembles a fox. It is. however 
 a bat, and flies like a bat. 
 
 The scene again changes, and. from the land of the palms and 
 orchids and perpetual heat, we are taken to mountains of perpetual 
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 AArv7".u''"r ?^'°"^ '^^^'^ patience, belly down on frozen drift. 
 
 While the head of heads is feeding out of range? 
 
 It is there that I am going, where the boulders and the snow lie 
 
 With a trusty nimble tra ':er that I know. 
 
 I have sworn an oath to keep it on the horns of Ovis Poli 
 
 And the Red Gods call me out and I must go. 
 
 The most northern extremity of the elevated Tibeto-Himalayan 
 mountain plateau is one of the Pamirs, a name given to elevated 
 plateaux in Central Asia. The highest ridge of the Himalayan moun- 
 tains has been called the "Roof of the World." Kipling here calls 
 •t "the world's white roof-tree." These mountain ranges are the 
 home of wild sheep. Here at an elevation of 16.000 feet above the 
 sea level is the home of the magnificent Ovis Poli. named after the 
 
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 celebrated \ enef an traveller, Marcus Polo, who ,net uith it i„ his 
 adventurous travels through this region in the 13th cent^, 7 It is 
 -narkable tor the great size of the horns of the old "n s' . d th 
 
 each side far away from the animal's head, instead of curline round 
 nearly m the same plane, as in n.ost of the other specif T horns o 
 
 tli hasT"^"'^ "^ rr""''' ^^°"^ '' '^ '' '-'^-^ long The v" 
 iir.. ?V" ''"'^ ^' -^P'^'"^^" '^""^^'••^' '-^"^l has been so often 
 hunted, that .t ,s very difficult now to get a good head The hunter 
 must exerc.se the greatest patience as'well Is skill in approa hi " 
 
 ozen drift • Tjw """ '°'' '°"^ ^P^"'^' "be'lv down on 
 
 trozendrft. uatchmgan opportunity to approach nearer and nearer 
 to a specimen, "head of heads." which is seen feeding o^t of range 
 A guide, or -trusty nimble tracker." skilled in the habfts of the hefo 
 as well as in knowledge of the localitv. is essential. '' 
 
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 u-hole. P " ^ summing up of the 
 
 Unto each the voice and vision, unto each his spoor and sign- 
 
 Where ,ha rails ,„„„„, in s.„d.d,r Q„i k °A), ,1° .T"' "" "'"^ 
 For ,he Red Gods „,.ke their medicin^agdn ''"""""'"■' °"'' 
 
 And we go-go-go away from here' 
 On the other side the world we're 'overdue 
 bend the road is clear before you 
 When the old Spring-fret comes o'er you 
 And the Red Gods call for you." 
 
 The allusion here is to meetings in council of voung men in the 
 world's hunting lodge who plan and discuss their -various rips and 
 have pleasant smokes together ere they separate, "ere ^^t 'twixt traH 
 and trad they choose.'' each choos-, his own destination, each hav^^^^ 
 
his own vision of enjoyment, each hearing a voice calling him, each 
 having a companion "who knows his naked soul." It matters not 
 how or where the sportsmen come, whether by steamer, by mule 
 train, by railway or on horseback, to a wharf, through the surf, in 
 the jungle on the prairie, or on the last built railway in the dessert; 
 in the cold north or the hot south; however or wherever it may be 
 the gmdes, those who are to meet them at their altars, to light them 
 to their shrine and to guide them to their goal, be thev white or yel- 
 low black or copper, be he a 'longshore loafer or a' gentle yellow 
 pirate, be he a trusty nimble tracker or a silent smoky Indian each 
 waits as a lover for the sportsman's return. A vorv pleasant thing 
 IS the hand-shaking with your last year's guide. 
 
 Z. A. Lash. 
 
 Toronto, Canada. October, 1898. 
 
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