SEA TROUT. 67 



are now settled in camp, haye eaten a good dinner, 

 smoked our cigars, and are going to bed. 



Aug. 6th. Haying had a good night's sleep I rose 

 at fiye A. M., made a hasty toilet, took my rod and 

 threw into the pool, within forty feet of my tent, and 

 took during a few minutes jihree trout weighing three- 

 quarters, one and a-quarter, and one and a-quarter 

 pounds respectively. M. soon followed and caught two 

 of one and a-quarter pounds each. Breakfast oyer we 

 sent our guides with the canoes down to the chaloupe 

 for the rest of our tents, stores, etc., and consequently 

 we can only fish the home pool to-day. With a hat- 

 chet I cut out a path through the laurel thicket to the 

 head of the pool, six or eight rods distant ; returned to 

 camp, put on my India rubber wading pants and rub- 

 ber shoes (haying a leather sole filled with Hungarian 

 nails), took my rod, walked to the head of the pool, 

 and cast my flies on the swift waters. In an instant a 

 pair of capacious jaws emerged from the water. I 

 struck, and as the head disappeared, saw the tail and 

 half the body of an enormous trout. ... In twenty 

 minutes the fish was in my landing net. I walked 

 proudly and in a most contented frame of mind back 

 to camp. " That," said Mr. Macdonough, " looks like 

 old times." The scales were hooked in his jaw, the 

 index showed three pounds, eight ounces. . . . Our 

 camp is on a sandy point of land around which curves 

 the pool, and from which, for the space of about one- 

 eighth of an acre, all trees were cut and the land cleared 



