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river into a snag, fouled the line, jumping 

 when it brought him up, and cleared himself 

 by parting the cast. 



After having lunch, we proceeded to put up 

 the tent, then had a couple of hours' nap in 

 the middle of the day, gathered wood for the 

 night, and at four o'clock started for the fish- 

 ing-grounds again. It was a most beautiful 

 evening. The wind had gone; but, oh, the 

 black flies and mosquitoes ! weren't they 

 thick ? We had always on our yearly cruises 

 put up our own fly-protector, made of three- 

 quarters sweet oil, with oil-tar, oil of pepper- 

 mint, and kerosine in equal proportions for the 

 other quarter; and this we found very effectual, 

 requiring to be used only twice a day. S. was 

 induced by some patent medicine-vendor to try 

 a wonderful preparation he had, that would 

 prevent a fly coming within smelling distance 

 of you, to say nothing of their biting, so he 

 discarded our old standby protector. But we 

 had not been separated half an hour when 

 from our boat I spied him coming on the run, 

 and when in hailing distance he shouted, " For 

 Heaven's sake, Pat, come ashore, and give 

 me some of that fly mixture ! That blamed 



