American Game-Fishes 



Pompano and Striped Bass. 



twined of the threads of countless brooks. 

 Over falls and through chasms, of which 

 the gaffers, who are loggers in winter, will 

 tell by the evening fire, it finds its way to 

 the broad pool beside which he has set his 

 camp. Behind the camp, a little way up, 

 is a cool spring among the rocks ; higher 

 yet on the sides of the cliff are spruces, 

 cedars, birches, maples, and all the multi- 

 tudinous foliage of early summer. Across 

 the pool the rocky wall rises nearly per- 

 pendicularly to its crest of trees. The bed 

 of the stream, too, is of rock broken into 

 steps, with patches of gravel where, through 



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