THE SALMON 



"Cold, these rivers, as the fountains 



From the wilderness that flow, 

 Cold as waters of the mountains, 



Gelid with the ice and snow. 

 There amid the soft abysses, 



Or the river's spring-fresh tide, 

 Gleaming, flashing, leaping, diving, 



Shoals of lordly salmon glide." 



Atlantic Salmon. 



A RIGHT royal member of the 

 ^-^ family of game fishes is the 

 lordly salmon, king of the freshwater 

 species by right of size and quality 

 as a fighter for freedom when hooked, 

 and the prime favorite of a necessarily 

 limited class of anglers, as salmon 

 fishing is a branch of the sport not 

 to be indulged in by men of small in- 

 come, on account not merely of the 

 cost of the outfit, but more particu- 

 larly by reason of the expense of leas- 

 ing a suitable stretch of water, em- 

 ploying an expert boatman, and other 

 incidentals in keeping with the 



