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out of them with the spoon bait, but faihng to do so, 

 he foul-hooked a dozen fish, which made a desperate 

 fight of it. The hamlet which owned this important 

 fishery was quite a small place, consisting of a few log- 

 huts, the most primitive we had seen, some of them 



SALMON TKAT LEFT OPEN ON SUNDAY (KLUCHI). 



built on four stumps to avoid the high snow or deep 

 mud, coarsely cut steps in wooden logs being fixed at 

 the entrance of each hut and used as ladders. 



One of the fishermen especially attracted our atten- 

 tion by his lofty stature and sad expression. I 



noticed that he did most of the work, ha\ing been 



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