56 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



These, with those we had with us, were all 

 packed in shavings and ice in boxes on our 

 express, and with the tent, cooking-gear, 

 rods, and two heavy fellows fattened for a 

 week on the choicest food in the land, made 

 a load for old Dobbin that caused him to 

 stagger in many places on the road home. 

 Four o'clock found us all ready for a move, so, 

 bidding our faithful guides adieu, but not till 

 we had engaged them for the following year, 

 we jumped into the waggon, and started for 

 our homeward journey of 30 miles, finishing 

 it, without a mishap, at midnight. 



Of late years the Medway, located on the 

 south-western part of Nova Scotia, has 

 become a famous resort for salmon-fishermen. 

 Many of the choicest pools have been bought, 

 and club houses erected ; but while the shoals 

 of fish entering the stream are immense, 

 beginning in February, the river is so miser- 

 ably protected that poachers with drag-nets 

 trap hundreds of them before and after they 

 reach the first ground.* This, as a matter 



* Mr. Pattillo's descriptions of his sport make one long to go out 

 to Nova Scotia. What a pity such splendid water should be so 

 poached ! R, B. MARSTON, Ed. Fishing Gazette, 



