CHAPTER IV. 



SUBSTITUTES FOR BAIT FISHING EXPERIENCE THE BLUE-BIRD 



ALABAMA RICH AND POOR HOOD'S SPERMOPHILUS A WOUNDED 



WAPITI THE MODEST VIOLET SUPPLY OF AMMUNITION UN- 

 EXPECTED PROPOSAL DOGS AND WOLVES FRIENDS OF LONG 



STANDING LUDICROUS POSITION HOSPITABLE TEAMSTERS. 



THIS morning, when the sun was sufficiently high in 

 the heavens for the earth to feel its invigorating 

 influence, I went down to the stream to try my luck 

 among its speckled denizens. For some time I was 

 delayed in commencing fishing by the difficulty I 

 experienced in obtaining bait. However, after turn- 

 ing over innumerable stones, and displacing several 

 decayed logs, I secured a specimen of an unknown 

 grub. With this victim impaled upon my hook, I 

 selected the top of a long reach of comparatively dead 

 water, where wide-circling dark eddies proclaimed 

 considerable depth. Among the grass and rushes 

 that margined the water I discovered a flat rock, 

 of many feet in diameter, only protruding a few 

 inches above the surface. In the centre of this was 

 a natural basin fifteen or sixteen inches in depth, in 

 appearance not unlike an exaggerated foot-bath. In 

 this natural tub I determined to place the anticipated 

 results of my sport. 



