BRANDY BROOK TROUT. DOWN Till; RIVER. 239 



family, and forge a chain of lo.u'ic which, by all precedents, 

 they could not break; the Sherill', with irrim -rit and mul- 

 titudinou> tackle, miu'ht hunt them with the dele-dive's re 

 lentless vigilance and sagacity; but it was all in vain. 

 Those noble fellows of Brandy Brook leaped and rolled 

 their broad, spotted, shilling >idr> in the sun. and uamboled 

 like lambs on the hill side; but they refused, with an an 

 chorite's virtue, every tempting oll'er. Happed their tails at 

 loirir. and eluded the stealthy hunt with double the drier 

 ti\'e's skill. Rarely, to be sure, one \vas rautrht, and upon 

 examiniim his stomach to learn what his royally fed upon 

 thai he had m~o\\ n -(.-real and so haughtily inditl'ereiit, il 



was found to contain nothing The Captain, to this 



dav. with a .-low and significant -hake of the head, main 

 tain- that the mv>teriou- conduct of a Brandy Brook trout 

 " beat> all !" 



But it is comforting to brlirvr that every evil fortune 

 ha> it- compen-ati<.n-. The ill-lurk of the (lras> Ki\cr 

 expedition and the lantali/in.ir failures at Brandy Brook 

 irave us both food for wise meditation and a broad and 

 -hapely cloud for the silver lininir that we were about to 

 behold besides furnishing a new illustration of proverbial 

 fisherman's luck. 



Some of our parly had been to the river below the lake 

 and reported, on their return, successes which inspired a 

 general exodus from the home camp. The next morning 

 after the (Jrass Kivrr experience, live of us. w ilh .u'uides, 

 went down the lake and In-low the dam for two days' lish- 

 iiiLr: leavinu the (,'aptain and UK; ShurilV in camp, slill nil- 



