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us to do it, but we did not and would not. 

 Then, to strengthen his sympathy with them, 

 and make them the fiercer against us, they 

 represented to him that F. said they had 

 no business on the pools, when what he 

 really did say was, "You," referring to C. 

 the first afternoon when he had his boat 

 poled through F.'s pool, between his boat 

 and fly, " have no business there." Until this 

 the major, who was a fisherman, did not 

 know that Captain C. had been guilty of such 

 a mean act. 



Sundry other explanations were made, 

 which cleared the way for an assembling 

 of us outside the immediate limits of the 

 battle-ground. Then the major made an 

 apology for his friends, requesting us to over- 

 look what had been annoying, attributing it 

 to the ignorance of local customs, they having 

 only been a month or so out here. Here we 

 buried the hatchet, and shook hands heartily, 

 and were always afterwards good friends. 

 Thus ended scene five. 



When we understood they planned to go the 

 following day on the Greenfield, the salmon 

 head water on the Medway, for a few days' 



