240 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



coming to the surface, you can form some 

 idea of the sight that was before me. Don't 

 judge of the sight I saw, reader, if you have 

 been a fisherman at Greenfield in these later 

 days, for then there was scarcely a fisherman 

 where now there are scores. Fish then had a 

 chance to multiply and grow large, while now 

 there is some one after them as soon as 

 spawned. When there on the pool, I was 

 puzzled which to fish for, salmon or trout, so 

 I put on a small Yellow-leg, double hook, of 

 sea-trout size, which it was hoped would 

 attract a large trout, or fool a salmon. It was 

 soon evident the trout did not want Yellows, 

 and a brown had been selected to replace it, 

 when a whirl of a large fish was noticed as 

 the line was being reeled in, so another cast 

 was made at once ; but he did not show, nor 

 could he be started in the same place again, for 

 the lad had changed his position, and when 

 and where not expected he made a rush and 

 hooked himself. 



Wasn't there a mad fish then ? He took to 

 the bottom, and rubbed hard to rid himself of 

 his entanglement, then made a rush across the 

 stream until he almost struck the shore, then 



