76 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



." We catcha plenta da salm; 



We catcha him ebera day; 

 We sella him to da mon 



At da cannery ober da bay, 

 Den we playa plenty da poka, 



When da daylight fada away." 



Boats of all kinds covered the bosom of the bay. All 

 nations on the earth were represented in that motley assem- 

 blage, from the tiny dot of an Indian girl in her little canoe, to 

 the English "Me Laud" in his whale-boat with six men at 

 the oars. It was a good-natured, jolly sort of a mob, too, 

 even if it was a heterogeneous one. In crossing and recrossing 

 so often, lines would become entangled, but such mishaps were 

 taken as unavoidable, and a commendable Christian spirit 

 was displayed on such accidents occurring. 



The engineer, gazing down the bay, saw something flash in 

 the air like the gleam of a silver scimeter. Hastily reeling 

 in his line, he began to paddle strongly in that direction. 

 The flashes then began to multiply by hundreds, and soon a 

 great shining body leaped in the air at the very prow of the 

 canoe, and fell with a heavy splash, leaving a widening ring 

 on the hitherto unruffled mirror-like plain. A moment later 

 the troll was spinning through the water, soon to be seized 

 with a heavy twitch, and then the line began^to hiss through 

 the water and the reel to whir. 



Dropping his paddle in the bottom of the canoe, the engineer 

 began "monkeying" with the Tyee at the other end of the 

 string in the sportsman-like manner recommended by the dude 

 sportsman of the effete East. A tight line was kept on him 

 till at last his frantic leaps and rushes were ended, and he 

 floated, gasping, at the side of the canoe. A boat containing 

 a sickly-looking dude and two pretty girls fresh from cultured 

 Boston now drifted alongside, and one of the ladies requested 

 the privilege of landing the fish. The rod was passed to her, 

 and after a little delay the victim was gaffed and lay flounder- 

 ing in his last struggle in the bottom of the skiff. From the 



