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grown people. Indeed, I doubt whether any body can 

 Handle a pin-hook with such remarkable success as a boy 

 does. I suppose this intuitive knowledge of " ho\v Intake 

 lisb " implies that our remote ancestors went a fishing fora 

 living for many generations, and that their then acquired 

 skill and habits come out naturally in a boy before his 

 nature is overlaid by the discipline and results of modern 

 education. 



The following day was Sunday. .John announced lliat 

 \ve had eaten up everything in the way of our fish supply 

 and sii-Lre-trd that there must be a pair of salmon trout at 

 tlie buoy waiting for us. \Vewent to our preserve. .Making 

 a virtuoiK iir.vsviiy of il. ina few moments we took three sal- 

 mon trout \\-eighingt\vo and a quarter, one and three-quar 

 ters, and one and a hif pounds respectively, and a speckled 

 trout weighing a half pound. They made a breakfast befit- 

 ting the day, and it required something remarkable to 

 befit such a day as that was, for it \v:i> perfection itself. 



The weather has much to do with the enjoyment of pro- 

 pie of in door life, to be sure ; but in the woods, when you 



are camping or tramping, it is the all important thing. It 

 makes or mars your out door life. A fortnight of rain in 

 the midst of your sojourn in the forest is a calamity with 

 out mitigation or compensation. But, perfect weather 

 among the trees and on the lakes and streams thai is 

 blessedness itself. 



In the afternoon we went to church on the summit of 

 Bald Mountain, and worshipped Nature. NVe made tin 

 cent from the north shore of Third Lake, by a good trail. 



