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to dinner, we learned that our friends had fished hard for 

 modest results. By the supervisory care of the ladies, the 

 dinner was served in the following order or menu : 



Vegetable soup. 



Boiled salmon and fried trout. 



Roast mutton, green peas, and other vegetables. 



Claret wine, tea, bread and butter, etc., concluding with a 

 dessert of marmalade and dried fruits. 



After dinner we concluded to rest the pools, burn some to- 

 bacco, and tie some flies. When we first began angling, the 

 preference by the salmon seemed to be given to the Montreal 

 fly, or a purple body, brown mallard wings, and tail from the 

 top-knot of the golden pheasant ; but within the last two 

 days they would not touch it. Their next favorite was a 

 good imitation of the real salmon fly, body and wings light 

 gray ; but after a couple of days more they refused all flies 

 but those with a preponderance of bright yellow and orange, 

 tied on a very small hook. The double-hook flies were the 

 most successful in bringing salmon to gaff, but I never tried 

 them ; and it is contended by some that two small hooks fall 

 better, and are more attractive than a single one. Forrest, 

 of Kelso, is the favorite fly-maker with Canadian anglers, and 

 he generally ties on a double hook. 



SECTION EIGHTH. 



FLY-FISHING BELOW THE FALLS. 



"Below the Falls of St. John, from deep crevice stealing, 



The bright salmon watches his prey, 



And when 'mid the white foam some stray fly lies wheeling, 

 Slyly bears slyly bears it away. 



" "Tis thus in this bright world, at joys without measure, 



Unheeding, we ardently spring, 

 And forget that oft hid by the plumage. of pleasure 



Lies a hook lies a hook in the wing." STODDART. 



To a man unaccustomed to the broad, rushing, tumbling 

 torrents which debouch in the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the 

 north, there are many subjects to inspire wonder, and some 



