262 MISCELLANEOUS. 



glorious sport on the morrow. We arrived at the village o 

 Cable, in Bayfield county, Wis., at eight o'clock. Afte: 

 supper we gathered in the sitting-room of the hotel and wer< 

 entertained for an hour by "Doctor" Weir, one of th< 

 bright lights of the town, with some interesting fish stories. 



He informed us that we were sure to have magnificen 

 sport. He said the Namecagon was literally full of trout 

 and that many of them were of immense size. He said w< 

 were not likely to catch one of less than half a pound weigh 

 and that two and three pounders were common ; that severa 

 parties had been out lately and each man had caught on ar 

 average a hundred pounds of trout "per day ; that if these 

 trout were too large, and if we preferred smaller ones, then 

 were plenty of small brooks in the vicinity, tributaries of th< 

 river, where we could catch an average of three hundred pei 

 day to the man that would only weigh from a quarter tc 

 half a pound each. 



He said the lakes in the neighborhood were also aliv( 

 with fish of various kinds. That at Long lake, two mile; 

 north, we would catch bass weighing from four to eigh 

 pounds as a steady thing ; that a day's string would averag( 

 six pounds ; that we would catch pickerel weighing twenty tc 

 thirty pounds each ; of course we would, for other people 

 were doing so every day. One of the boys ventured tc 

 remark that he thought the Doctor was giving us taffy. Bu 

 the Doctor affirmed on his professional honor that every wore 

 was true as gospel. 



" Why," said he, " we have eaten fresh fish here until we 

 are all tired of them ; occasionally one of the boarders con 

 eludes that he would like a mess of fish. He goes out to th< 

 lake, and in an hour returns with a coffee sack full of blacl 

 bass, but on his arrival finds that about fifteen or sixteen o: 

 the other boarders have been out fishing just for fun and eact 



