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but quite as of teD at the s;imr season, with more or less 

 water, 01- with higher or lower temperature. With a trout's 

 powers of locomotion lie has a vigorous fancy for making 

 himself comfortable in the best placo. (Grievously dis- 

 a])pointc(l, and not without expectation of a full chorus of 

 "I told you so! " with variations, from our comrades, when 

 we should again reach them, we reluctantly resolved to 

 turn our prows toward the home camp. 



Alter concluding our meager breakfast, the SherilT and 

 his guide pushed on down to IJurnt Hock to begin his fish- 

 ing there, and twenty minutes later, after the water WBB 

 (piiet auain. my uuide and I drop|)ed slo\\ ly down >iivam 

 while I east carefully over e\eiy foot of water where a 

 tnuil mi-lit lurk. I >ooii -truck a little pool from which I 

 took ten small trout, all the inhabitants of that place. I 

 imaL'.ine, and then we slowly proceeded until \\ e overtook 

 the Sheriil. I c.nmht but fouitten trout in all. but was 

 eluted that 1 had beaten the Sin-rill', my acknowl. .l-.-.i d 

 superior in anu'lim:. 



Down stream we went, and through flood jams, drift \\ ood 

 and alders, with which we \\cre now painfully familiar, 

 to liolio's apiin. While waitin- for dinner, we tried our 

 luck in the swift water, eddies and pools in the river below 

 the dam. but without a rise. It is evidently the place of 

 all others for Spring tishini:. but July fishing is quite 

 another thinu'. Al'lcrdinner another sturdy tramp, and we 

 reached the falls. Tho water from the Uoervoir had raised 

 the river until the stepping stones of the day before were 

 no longer available, and we were boated over the bay 

 below the falls. 



