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number ; lovely fish, ranging from Ib. to 7 Ib. or 

 8 Ib. About 200 ft. from the shore, and practically 

 facing this pool, is our wood-built hotel, one and half 

 stories, with wide veranda covered with woodbine, 

 green lawn, and flower beds in front, blooming with 

 geraniums and pansies. This is the anglers' camp, and 

 the happiest hours of my life have been spent there. 

 We have twenty-seven rooms, and they are all lined 

 with native pine, and varnished and kept as clean as a 

 tea saucer. The roar of that pool is so musical that if 

 it ever stops you cannot sleep. The people of the 

 house are excellent people, good sportsmen, and men 

 and women alike just devote themselves to making 

 the angling boys happy and comfortable. You pay 

 your two dollars a day for board and lodging, and live 

 like fighting cocks plenty of fruit and vegetables, 

 and any variety of butcher's meat and side dishes. 

 You can fish from the shore if you like, but a boat is 

 best. You can hire one for two dollars a week, and if 

 you want a competent guide to manage it, that will 

 cost you two and a half dollars a day, for labour is not 

 cheap here, and these guides are most skilful and ex- 

 perienced. If you have them you have forty miles of 

 lake to fish, as well as the dam pool. However, let us 

 suppose you go out in your own boat. One peculiarity 

 of the pool is, that wherever you anchor you will have a 

 down-stream wind, and that is what you want here. Out 

 with your 4O-lb. weight, and there you are at anchor. 

 "And now we come to September 18 last year. It 

 was Sunday, a day upon which I seldom fish. At the 

 bottom of the pool, however, a large trout had been 

 seen rising, and lots of men had been trying for it. So 

 I went out at the most favourable hour five in the 

 afternoon, with my ro-ft. Kosmie rod, weighing exactly 

 6J ounces. I like myself to fish with a single fly, and 



