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and up he would come; often with my fly 

 trailing while hauling up the anchor has 

 one rushed out and hooked himself. So, 

 reader, if an inexperienced fisherman, don't 

 get quickly discouraged. If luck does not 

 speedily attend you, whistle and keep your 

 courage up, and he'll come later on. My 

 general readers will pardon this digression, 

 which has been made especially for those 

 who do not know as much about the whims 

 of salmon as you and I do. 



After such wonderful luck in the forenoon, 

 we started out at four o'clock, thinking there 

 would be no difficulty in making up the dozen 

 fish by dusk ; but in this we were sadly dis- 

 appointed, as I did not see one, while the 

 only fish S. and Peter got was jigged under 

 water in the soft part of his belly. He gave 

 them a big chase, cutting from one side of the 

 river to the other, and was saved by most 

 careful handling, as the flesh tore so easily it 

 was only by a constant and moderate strain 

 the hook was kept in him. We slept soundly 

 that night, the last of that outing, and were 

 early on the ground in the morning for the 

 final fishing. S. took the head of Salmon 



