286 GRAYLING. NORTHERN MlCIIH.\V 



o'clock P. M., capturing- twelve grayling, my entire catch 

 for the day being thirty-three, and for the day and the even- 

 ing before, thirty-seven. Of these, three weighed ten ounces 

 each, and measured as I have described my second fish. 

 Quite a number weighed half a pound, or a trifle more. 

 They were a glorious sight in the well, when 1 landed and 

 ga/ed at them to my heart's content, before permitting the 

 men to despoil their fair forms. 



My prettiest sport was had at a deep, narrow and -\\iti 

 passage in the river, up which we were forcing our way 

 by clinging to the branches and workinir as best we could. 

 Jones held the boat right in the edge of this swift water, 

 while I east up stream, taking fairly large fish frequently. 

 One ten-ounce fish, >t ruck in the water above me, rushed 

 swiftly down stream, forty or fifty feet below the boat, 

 before I could elieek him. At the instant, when I brought 

 him to bay, he sprang fully three feet out of water, as 

 magnificent a leap as I ever saw. flapping his tail with a 

 noise that I distinctly heard above the rush of the rapids, 

 as if applauding himself for his gallant exploit. 



" Gracious! " said 1. 



"Gosh all Christopher!" said Jones. 



I wouldn't have missed landing- that (Hi. after such a 

 display of his heauly and strength, and after the brave bat- 

 tle he made for the next live minutes, for the best bamboo 

 ever won at a tl\ casting tournament by either of those 

 veterans of the angle. Ueub. \Vood or Seth Given. 



The team met u< at the Hay Ko:id, at six o'clock P. M., 

 and we tediously drove fifteen miles through the jack pines, 

 the heavy timber, and finally over a corduroy road through 

 a swalnp. back, late in the evening, to Grayling and our 

 hotel. 



