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streams which had a very long run before reaching a 

 lake that we found these winter fish ' bunched up ' in 

 the deep elbows. Those, for example, that ran into 

 the north-west of Lake Superior were utterly fishless 

 in the autumn, though we found on their banks 

 plentiful evidence of their having been productive at 

 an earlier period. To get fontinalis we had to go 

 down to where the stream emptied itself into the 

 lake ; and, if you gat them not there, you had to go 

 to the lake itself. Curious, it was in Thunder Bay 

 (and how it used to thunder there under the Manito!) 

 we found that if we spun a phantom about the rocks 

 very sharply, we were sure of a good fontiyialis ; if 

 slowly, we were encumbered with a big, clumsy, gray 

 lake-trout, with no more fight in him than a codfish. 

 By the way, these phantoms are very deadly among 

 the \Ag fontinalis of Newfoundland, by far the finest 

 I have ever killed in North America. 



It was much the same in Nova Scotia in the late 

 autumn. Never a fin could we stir in streams 

 emptying themselves into lakes, which the Indians 

 assured us had swarmed with trout earlier in the 

 season. Of course there we had no opportunity of 

 fishing the lakes, because they were unfrozen. Yes, 

 they were once with a vengeance, but there was no 

 stopping for fishing. We had been living in a most 

 perfect birch -bark tepi on an island, out and away 

 from everywhere, with its fire in the middle, and its 

 delicious circle of hemlock -sprays on which to rest 

 our weary bones ; so cosy was it, and so much game 



