i;o MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



going to fight those burly Englishmen alone. 

 I would have a hand in it somewhere, so by 

 the time he was on the boom this reciter was 

 there too, and we landed in the mill yard 

 together. Without any prevarication, and as 

 if all planned, the four of them seized S., the 

 orderlies holding him by the shoulders, while 

 the officers grabbed his gaff, which he was 

 holding, and attempted to wrest it from him 

 and did so throwing it into the river. Now, 

 four on one is rather unfair fighting ; so an 

 opening came for me. So soon as they took 

 hold of him, up went the butt of my gaff, no 

 mean stick, and hard wood at that, and down 

 it came on the head and arm of one Mr. 

 Orderly, placing him hors de combat. Then 

 they left S. and made at me, seizing my gaff, 

 which caused a desperate encounter, in which 

 the handle was broken, but not till our 

 pugilistic captain had the marks of it fastened 

 in his hands. 



Things were getting lively and well mixed. 



They were determined to have that gaff, 

 and its owner was just as much so the other 

 way. My boxing lessons came nicely into 

 play just here, and straight away from my 



