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ladies to walk up on. Mrs, C. exhibited 

 3, very different spirit from her lord, as she 

 specially requested that nothing should be 

 said about the occurrence that their men 

 could hear, until the afternoon's fishing was 

 over. There was a short direct road to Fair- 

 view Hotel, at which they were stopping, and 

 thither I directed them, so that they could 

 reach it without being exposed to the public 

 eye. Their gratitude knew no bounds. It is 

 fifteen years since this occurred, and the very 

 recalling of it at this distant day makes me 

 shudder. When I grasped after Mrs. C. my 

 rod was in one hand and the salmon in the 

 other, but what became of them I know not, 

 nor had I thought of them until those men 

 arrived on the scene. The rod I found 

 resting with a butt in a link of the boom- 

 chain, with the tip on an old log, safe and 

 sound. But the salmon was never seen again. 

 As this was all the excitement wanted for one 

 afternoon, I left my rod at Lew's, and sought 

 repose in the tent. This ended scene the 

 second. 



The next morning we were all on the ground 

 S. and F. occupying the pool of the day 



