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have killed a hundred ; but having no means to pot 

 or souse them, and knowing that they are com- 

 paratively worthless salted or smoked, we had re- 

 solved not to kill more than we could eat. 



On the way back to camp we took a long, lean, 

 poor, sickly fish, that, if in good order, would have 

 reached six pounds, but in its unhealthy state only 

 weighed two and a half. 



At supper that evening Don made a formal pro- 

 test and complaint, insisting that he would drink no 

 more tea till he had white sugar; he entered at 

 some length into the characteristics and peculiarities 

 of sugar in its various stages, questioned the advan- 

 tage of using brown sugar at all, intimated that white 

 was the best, most economical, and least bulky, 

 advised me in future to take none other, and finally 

 having disposed of every conceivable case but his 

 own, inquired why, when we had abundance of 

 both, he was not allowed the one he preferred, by 

 which time I had it out and ready at his hand. He had 

 evidently braced himself for a terrible argument, 

 seemed somewhat surprised at the want of opposition, 

 and after a moment or two began to call in question 

 the propriety of opening a new package, when the 

 brown sugar was already in use ; that, in fact, al- 

 though some people preferred white, and he must 

 confess he was among the number, others liked the 

 flavor of the dark colored; that little inconveniences 

 were the natural concomitants of a sportsman's life ; 

 that when a number of bundles were opened they 

 were more exposed to dampness a serious injury to 



