176 BOUND POND. 



Opposite, and across the bay from where our tents were 

 pitched, I noticed that a small stream entered the lake, and 

 Smith and myself crossed over to experiment among the 

 trout I knew would be gathered there. We were entirely 

 successful, for we took one at almost every throw. I have 

 more than once stated, that the trout of these lakes and 

 rivers, in the warm season, congregate where the cold 

 streams enter ; and if the sportsman will search out the 

 little brooks, no matter how small, and cast his fly across 

 where their waters enter the lake or river, he will be sure to 

 find trout in any of the hot summer months. 



We returned to camp before the sun went behind the hills, 

 with our fish ready for the pan, and our boatmen provided 

 us with a meal of jerked venison, pork, and trout, which an 

 epicure might envy, and to which a hard day's journey and 

 an appetite sharpened by the bracing influence of the pure 

 mountain air, gave a peculiar relish. It was a pleasant 

 thing to see the moon come up from among the trees that 

 formed a dark outline to the lake away off to the east, and 

 travel up into the sky ; to see how faithfully it was given 

 back from down in the stirless waters, and how the stars 

 twinkled and glowed around it in the depths below, as they 

 they did in the depths above. There was the moon, and 

 there the stars, all bright and glorious in the heavens above ; 

 and there another moon, and other stars, as bright and 

 glorious, down in the vault below ; the lake floating, as it 

 were, an almost viewless mist, a shadowy and transparent 

 veil between. 



