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jerk, and a jump, until at last Ave rattled down upon the pier 

 amid the plaudits of admiring cabbies congi'egated there. ^Ye 

 paid that man a Yankee silver half-dollar ; it was all he asked, 

 but not half what he earned. The next summer, when we 

 happened at Ha Ha Bay again, that Frenchman knew us — 

 you bet ! Ha ! ha ! 



Although the steamboat excursion ends here, the angler's 

 journey has only begun. His field of adventure is at the 

 Chicoutimi Falls, thirty miles or more above, and his game 

 the splendid wininnish, as the Indians call them — a fish 

 very nearly allied to the land-locked salmon, though I notice 

 slight points of difierence between the two. The dorsal fin 

 of the wininnish is longer, and at those seasons of the year 

 when he visits the rapids, he carries it erect and projecting 

 above the surface like a shark's. The sjDots on the wininnish 

 are irregular quadrilaterals, while those of the land-locked 

 salmon are rounder ; and he lacks that golden lustre which 

 glows from the scales of the latter, when fresh from his 

 element. In general color and appearance he more nearly 

 resemliles the grilse. In the early part of the season his 

 scales are of the most lustrous silvery- white, and his back a 

 glo'\\dng steel-color ; but, as the season advances, his hue be- 

 comes dark and cloudy. He is not the same handsome fish 

 then, by any means. Both of these varieties have a tail quite 

 forked ; seventeen rays in the first dorsal fin ; the generic 

 adipose second dorsal; the characteristic lateral line of 

 the salmon ; the same number of spots on the gill-covers, and 

 the same pinkish-yellow color of the flesh. I do not remem- 

 ber the vomers, or the number of rays in the caudal-fin. 

 The wininnish seems more active than either the land-locked 

 salmon or grilse, often making three successive leaps with 

 great rapidity, and without appearing to touch the water ex- 

 cept with his tail. I have never seen gi-ilse do this, and 

 their reputation for activity is such that the Indians always 

 speak of them as "jumpers." 



In the winter they are scattered through the deep water 



