268 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



CHAPTER X. 



Salmon-fishing in Canada — Major Browne — Rods, 

 lines, and flies — Visit to Jacques Cartier — 

 Catching fish — Dancing at the toll-house — The 

 Major's skill as a musician — Spearing salmon 

 by torch -light. 



Gentle reader, are you a salmon- 

 fisher? If you be, go to Canada; it is 

 worth crossing the banks of Newfound- 

 land to wet your line in a North American 

 stream ; they one and all are full of 

 salmon and trout, which will be found to 

 take, with a voracity so gratifying to the 



