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pull "of this whole" pull "blank business. There! 

 I've got you ! but, blank the whole blank business ! 1 feel 

 as if I had been stealing sheep : blank me if I don't ! Let's 

 go to camp, Captain, I don't think I care to fish if you 

 call this fishing !" 



The rest of UN went up the I Ji- Inlet at the head of the 

 lake, through the rloodwood and dead standing in 

 some places very difficult of passage after leaving the 

 main body of the lake fully nine <>r ten miles tn.ni ramp, 

 to the foot of the rapid* where the Oswegatchie comes 

 tumbling into the dead water. Not a trout did we take in 

 all that day. although we >a\v -ome laruv fellow- leaping 

 in sport. It will not do for the M-orner to insinuate ihat 

 the fault was in the fishermen. rather let it be laid to 

 proverbial fisherman's luck. for the Captain and the 

 Sheriff, whose skill needs no vindication, subsequently h, id 

 there precisely the same experience. 



It was the general understanding of the party, a ,-ort ( .t 

 unwritten law. as binding as the Knglish Constitution, 

 that the "good places" should be pa-sed around : and by 

 virtue of this law the Mayor and I \\eiv permitted to fish 

 Urandy Brook the next day, under a sun that broiled and 

 roasted after a most vigorous and emphatic fashion. The 

 Captain and 'Sheriff had devoted several hours of faithful 

 labor to removing obstructions, so that there were various 

 open spaces and reaches of water where lly casting was 

 feasible. We fished a< skillfully and devotedly as we 

 knew and with genuine ardor, ascending theri'.oded por- 

 tion of the stream to the "quick" water. At the close of the 



