Besides the work done for the magazine on this trip, he gave the
_Atlantic Monthly_ two articles, "The Moonshiner at Home," and
"Barataria: The Ruins of a Pirate Kingdom."
During the fall, winter and early spring, our home was in
Wurtsboro, Sullivan County, New York, a quaint old village in the
beautiful Mamakating valley. Here he hunted and fished and worked,
February found him on a snowshoe trip in Northern Quebec with the
Montagnais Indian trappers, the outcome of which was his "Children
of the Bush."
On April 1st, 1902, he entered the office as assistant editor of
_Outing_. Here was a new field and another opportunity for testing
his fitness. He threw himself into the work with characteristic
energy and enthusiasm, and his influence on the magazine was marked
from the first. He soon succeeded in projecting into it something
of his own passionately human personality. In the fall of that
year a noted angler commented to him on the change in it and his
responsibility.
"When a big salmon comes to the top, there is a great swirl on the
water. You don't see the salmon, but you know he is there," he
said.
Office work left little time for writing; but in the early autumn
of that year a vacation trip to the north shore of Lake Superior
gave him two articles, "Where Romance Lingers," and "Off Days on
Superior's North Shore."
In January 1903 the trip to Labrador was decided on, and his
preparation for it begun.
