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tent of blankets, a fine bed of balsam boughs, and con- 

 cocted a good supper of the fish we had taken, flanked by 

 many things from our hotel. T tried to believe thai the 

 grayling is as good to cat as the trout, but yielded only a 

 modified assent. 



A.fter breakfast, the next morn ing, while our men were 

 doing the house-work of our tabernacle on the Au Sable, 

 my friend and I walked hack from the river, half a mile 

 through a wooded belt along the river bottom, to the ele- 

 vated plateau where the scraggly jack-pines prevailed, 

 ^altered and small, and to a farm which Mr. West had 

 initiated on the poor, sandy soil. On our way back to 

 camp, we surprised a large and very fat hedge-hog that 

 waddled off into the underbrush, his slow movements, a 

 he -hauiMed along, being notably accelerated by several 

 innocent and harmless sticks cast ineffectually after him. 



Putt inn everything aboard our boats, and interchanging 

 hoatmi'ii. (by which arrangement Jones fell to me,) we 

 proceeded down the river, fishing as we went. The early 

 day was delightful, not too warm although bright and 

 , !,ut afterward becoming cloudy. Later, the clouds 

 heavy and dark, an east wind blew smartly 

 up sire.-nn. and at length some rain fell, but not enough to 

 drive u< to shelter. 



We fished for five miles down the river to the "Hay 

 Road," where we dined on shore. During the morning I 

 had taken t went y-one grayling, throwing back two of that 

 number because small, all kept alive in the well. 



In the afternoon, I fished one and a half miles further 

 down stream, and back again to the Hay Road, until five 



