14 SPORT IN NORTH AMERICA. 



are in eacli canoe, one paddling, and the other hold- 

 ing a harpoon in his hand. The torch sheds a 

 bright light ahead, and with attentive eje the har- 

 pooner watches the favourable moment when the 

 fishj attracted by the flame, shows its back above 

 the surface of the water. At that moment he is 

 transfixed. The cord which holds the harpoon is 

 uncoiled, and the canoe is sometimes dragged along 

 the rapids. What matters it ? The E.ed Skins are 

 marvellously dexterous, and despise all kinds of 

 danger-. What they propose to themselves to do, 

 they mostly accomplish, and the fish seldom fails to 

 be shared between the two partners. 



The sturgeons of New Brunswick are of monstrous 

 size, often attaining to a length of ten or twelve 

 feet. It is interesting to see them leaping and 

 plunging over the rapids, mounting from one level 

 to another. There is a tradition that one morning 

 a sturgeon, leaping in this way, jumped into the 

 bark canoe of an Indian squaw, who was known 

 among her familiars as "Molly Greenbaize." The 

 good woman, without losing her presence of mind, 

 threw herself on the fish, lying over him at full 

 length, and by paddling with her hands over the 

 side of the frail skifi", managed to get both it and 

 the fish safely to shore. 



Trout are very abundant in the United States, in 

 all the rivers, in the clear waters of the lakes, and 

 the deep holes of the streams. The urban sports- 



