DAYS STOLEN FOR SPORT 107 



disappearance. Time disappeared but they did 

 not, so we took our guide's advice and moved 

 higher up, taking our expectations with us. Here 

 we met with sport, and, almost simultaneously, 

 hooked and brought to land captures, which were 

 not, however, fit company for those that lay beside 

 the bait-can. A further half-hour's wait brought 

 only one more and that, too, so small that we 

 decided on devoting our last hour to the lower end, 

 where we met with that end-of-day success which 

 is so apt to give regrets and cause us to say : "If 

 we had only come here sooner ! " 



The snow that had frequently threatened us 

 came in earnest now, but the semi-darkness that it 

 brought did not affect the doctor's luck, for he got 

 two more good fish, between nine and ten pounds 

 each, while I got one of seven, before the time 

 arrived to put up rods. 





