All the auroras of the northland blended in one could but have paled away before the splendour of that terrific celestial apparition.

He had not gone a dozen steps when there was a furious fluttering close to him, and one of the fierce big-eyed jays of the Northland was directly in his path.

Yet in all the Northland he was the greatest destroyer of their kindan even greater destroyer than man.

CHAPTER XXI A SHOT ON THE SAND-BAR July and August of 1911 were months of great fires in the Northland.

The untempered sun of the Northland beat down on the cold snow crystals and reflected a million sparks of light.

The first mad rush to the Northland When the scum from the four ends of earth Came in with a rush, a scramble, a crush Like scrap in a fusing pot hurled.

The Vikings remain for a year, telling stories of their own Northland, and listening to the classic and Oriental tales of their hosts.

" William Dunbar, the greatest poet of this group, who lived in the last half of the fifteenth century, was a loving student of the nature that greeted him in his northland.

The next morning at sunrise the outfit was ready for its long trail into the northland.

It has to do with the last tragic weeks of this winter of 1907, in which it was a toss-up between all things of flesh and blood in the Northland to see which would winlife or deathand in which a pair of dark eyes and a voice from the First People turned a sociologist into a possible Member of Parliament.

The beginnings of Bamburgh take us back more than a thousand years, to that long-ago summer of 547, when the cyuls (keels) of the marauding Bernician chieftain Ida and his followers grounded on the shore of our Northland, and the work of conquest began.

And the girl's eyes suddenly swam bright, for the northland was very dreary.

As we passed down the street the wives and the swarming children of the garrison were at the doors and windows; there were women and girls with skins as fair as any in the northland, and others that were predominantly negro.

It brought back dear memories of glorious April mornings on Long Island, when through the singing of robin and song-sparrow comes the piercing cadence of the meadowlark; and of the far northland woods in June, fragrant with the breath of pine and balsam-fir, where sweetheart sparrows sing from wet spruce thickets and rapid brooks rush under the drenched and swaying alder- boughs.

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Joe and Bob on northland trails

To Northland folk the unclosing buds of April brought no awakening; lethargy fettered all, arresting vigour, sapping desire.

Still, for the Northland, there remained now little of the keener suspense since those first fiery outbursts in the South; but all through the winter the dull pain throbbed in silence as star after star dropped from the old galaxy and fell flashing into the new.

And now the soft sun of April spun a spell upon the Northland folk; for they had eyes

They often speculated over his past, and tried to conjure up (from what they had read and heard) what his northland life had been.

That the northland still drew him, they knew; for at night they sometimes heard him crying softly; and when the north wind blew and the bite of frost was in the air, a great restlessness would come upon him and he would lift a mournful lament which they knew to be the long wolf-howl.

"What have you to offer him in that northland life?" "Grub, when I've got it, and that's most of the time," came the answer.

Out of the Northland sombre weirds are calling; A shadow falleth southward day by day; Sad summer's arms grow cold; his fire is falling; His feet draw back to give the stern one way.

And Spring came back to the Northland.