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once jointed our rods and baited our hooks with live 

 grasshoppers, of which we had plenty. Hardly had I 

 struck my line into the water when a speckled beauty 

 took the hook ; and then another and another, and for 

 a couple of hours it was nothing but a swish of the 

 line and a tussle with the trout. 



Soon we had as many as we could carry. Mean- 

 while, the men we left behind had, with the assist- 

 ance of the guide who had returned to help them, 

 resurrected an old scow and crossed. About two 

 o'clock they appeared with a welcome lunch. The 

 car log-book of game credited the party with a catch 

 of some three hundred and fifty trout, and that was 

 certainly enough to last us some days, as we had them 

 carefully packed away in the refrigerator. 



Next morning our car was coupled to the Pacific 

 express and hauled to that wonderful spot, the great 

 Selkirk Glacier. An excursion was promptly made to 

 the glacier, which is said to be seven miles long, two 

 miles broad and of solid ice 2,000 feet thick. A fine 

 object lesson is here obtained of the resistless power 

 of the ice in crushing, powdering and moving enor- 

 mous masses of rocks. Avalanches, landslides and 

 terrific storms are of such frequent occurrence during 

 the winter and spring that the occupants of the rail- 

 road hotel and station are in daily terror of their 

 lives. 



Early one morning a couple of our sportsmen, armed 



