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tent of blankets, a fine bed of balsam boughs, and con- 

 cocted a good supper of the fish we had taken, flanked bj^ 

 many things from our hotel. I tried to believe that the 

 grayling is as good to eat as the trout, ])ut yielded only a 

 modified assent. 



After breakfast, the next morning, while oin* men Avere 

 doing the house-work of our tabernacle on the Au Sal)le, 

 my friend and 1 walked back from the river, half a mile 

 through a wooded Ijelt along the river ])ottom, to the ele- 

 vated plateau where the scraggi}' jack-pines prevailed, 

 scattered and small, and to a farm which Mr. West had 

 initiated on the poor, sand}" soil. On our way back to 

 camp, we surprised a large and very fat hedge-hog that 

 waddled off into the underbrush, his slow movements, as 

 he shambled along, being notably accelerated by several 

 innocent and harmless sticks cast ineffectually- after him. 



Putting everything aboard our boats, and interchanging 

 boatmen, (by which arrangement Jones fell to me,) we 

 proceeded down the river, fishing as we went. The early 

 day was delightful, not too warm although bright and 

 clear, but afterward becoming cloudy. Later, the clouds 

 became heavy and dark, an east wind blew smartly 

 up-stream, and at length some rain fell, but not enough to 

 drive us to shelter. 



AVe fished for five miles down the river to the 'Ha}' 

 Road," where we dined on shore. During the morning I 

 had taken twenty-one grayling, throwing back two of that 

 number because small,— all kept alive in the well. 



In the afternoon, I fished one and a half miles further 

 down stream, and back again to the Hay Road, until five 



