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of thorough smoking ensures them for ten 

 days; forty-eight hours, and they will be 

 safe for a month. Keep them strictly dry, 

 away from flies, and in an airy place (say, 

 a potato sack hung in an attic) . The pack- 

 ing must be careful to avoid breakage in 

 carrying. It is scarcely worth while to 

 bother with anything under half a pound; 

 though small trout, well smoked but un- 

 cooked, are toothsome as a red herring. A 

 few planks make a convenient boucanerie, 

 — six feet high, and not less than four feet 

 by two in the other dimensions. Weather- 

 proof, it must be, with two openings that 

 can be shut tightly, — the upper one to ad- 

 mit the fish, which depend from cross-bars, 

 the lower for tending the fire. An im- 

 provisation, answering quite tolerably, may 

 be built of birch-bark, or even spruce 

 boughs. 



Before inviting you to cross the portage 

 from the lower to the upper lake, I take 

 leave to say a word about the annual per- 

 plexity which confronts us. The best of 

 the fishing for trout, and all the fishing for 

 nitidus, depend upon the advent of the may- 

 fly, and this date varies, according to sea- 

 son, by two or three weeks. To hit off the 

 time one must guess when the may-fly is 

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