28t> CRANBERRY LAKE. — THE OSWE<",ATCIITE. 



genllomeul That's tlie kind of trout you want to be catc-li- 

 inir; — it's tlu' kind 1 take when I actually li'o a-tishinii-, my- 

 si'lf, and not nuMvly uo alouii' for company. "" 



" Well, wlu're on earth did you cc^nie from, how did you 

 U'et here, and \Yhere did you u'et your trout ? " 



" One thinu.- at a lime, ii'entlemen. I came from Cook's, 

 below the dam. Left liiere this morninii;. Fisiied up the 

 river, and just uof here, liftecn mimiles aii'o. waitinii; for 

 somethinu" to turn up. ^'ou"ve turned up. and I'm ndii'hty 

 glad of it, for I'm as hungry as a Itear, — I am. C^rimshaw 

 has just sent for a drink of water, but I'm afraid of water 

 alone. — 1 am. Haven't you got something that '11 take the 

 malaria out of it?" 



"No, — we don't carry the article; — but, 'S(j[uire. how 

 about the trout — the biggest cue we've seen in all these 

 parts? " 



" Well, I got him in the river, down here. Big one, 

 isn't he! Oh, he's the boss trout!— that's the kind I catch 

 when I reallj' go a-tishing, I tell you. ' And he stuck to 

 his stor}'. The " bottom facts " had not then come out, 

 but of those, more ancm. It was a fact, however, well 

 enough known in camp, that the ' Squire was the poorest 

 fisherman in the part3^ — and just how the "boss trout" 

 fell to his lot was the mystery on which we pondered and 

 about which there was expended that night, aroimd the 

 smudge fire, an unexampled amount of fun and railler}-. 



Taking the ' Squire in tow, we came on to Thomas's to- 

 gether, procured another boat, and finally' reached the 

 home-camp completely exhausted — the Grass River trip 



