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to be comfortable under such circumstances requires the 

 building of a commodious cahotic at the river; to have cooks, 

 gaffers, and supernumeraries; to provide liberally with pro- 

 visions and camp-furniture, as well as personal outfit. Even 

 the item of fly-oil, some wag has suggested, must have been 

 important of itself. 



Reference to the many rivers of the Dominion to which 

 anglers resort would not be complete without including the 

 Margarie of Cape Breton, the Jupiter and Dauphine of Anti- 

 costi Island, and the Humber, Castor, Gauder, and Exploits, 

 and a good dozen others, of Newfoundland. The Margarie 

 and Newfoundland are easily reached by regular steamers 

 from Halifax, while Anticosti is accessible by chaloupes 

 which run frequently from Quebec to the island in the fish- 

 ing season. 



At the present time all available Salmon rivers lie below 

 Quebec. But twenty years ago, and previously, the Jacques 

 Cartier, above Quebec, was noted for its fish, and a hundred 

 years ago many streams which empty into Lake Ontario con- 

 tained Salmon. Perhaps some day all of them may be re- 

 stored. In such event ambitious wielders of the ambidex- 

 trous rod will not be obliged to go to the Natashquan, nor 

 pay from $i,ooo to $6,000 for a brief period of sport. Never- 

 theless, there IS nothing in life better worth the paying for; 

 and any man who has tussled with a big Salmon and brought 

 him to gaff may well feel himself a hero, and join with a vener- 

 able Godbout River poet, who is now far in the decline of life, 

 after boating and grassing hundreds of goodly Salmon, in the 

 epigram: 



"At last the dubious fight is o'er! 

 The battle has been fairly won, 

 And the coveted prize lies safe on shore. 

 A beauty! a twenty-pounder good! 

 Hurrah! a prettier Salmon sure 

 Was ne'er seen beneath the sun." 



