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proceeded to the^dam. My father asked me, as I was 

 starting, where I was going. I replied that I was 

 going to get some trout. He said that I had not 

 time that morning, and that they did not want the 

 h'sh. But I told him I would return in a short time ; 

 when I arrived at the dam I found as many as half a 

 bushel of trout lodged on it. I filled my basket as 

 quickly as possible, and hurried home. On my 

 arrival there, my father expressing great surprise, 

 inquired how I had caught so many. I informed 

 him ; and ever after, when the water was at a middle 

 stage, we took in this way a great many ; but when 

 the water was high they could go over the dam. We 

 caught eels in great numbers by lifting up the stones 

 under which they were concealed, in the shallow 

 part of streams* We speared a great many of them 

 by night, in the following manner. Torches were 

 made of yellow pitch pine, split fine, about seven 

 feet in length, which threw a light so bright that we 

 could see the fish on the bottom. We went up the 

 stream to fish, as the eels kept on the bars and in the 

 shallow water. My two older brothers and myself 

 went together ; I would draw the canoe, and they 

 take the eels. Sometimes as we were out fishing, 

 deer would come to the river to eat moss, within 

 sight of us. When we saw them, we would all get 

 into the canoe — one held the light, another sat in 

 the forward part of the canoe, generally with two 

 guns, and the third one sitting in the stern, would 

 push the canoe along the stream as carefully as 

 possible. Sometimes we could approach so near as 



