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spring, immense quantities of the large river trout are 

 caught. These two men stopped at Martin's one morn- 

 ing while he was at breakfast, and told him they were 

 on the way to Raquette Falls after trout. He replied 

 that he was going, also, soon as he had finished his 

 breakfast. Martin is a great fisherman, and they did 

 not care to have him along to interfere with their 

 sport, and immediately resolved to push on, and get the 

 first of the fishing. But they told him that they would 

 row down to the inlet of Stony Creek, and fish there 

 till he joined them, when they would go up together. 

 To this he assented, and having leisurely finished his 

 breakfast and got his boat ready he followed on ; but 

 when he reached the spot where they were to wait for 

 him he found they were gone. He at once saw through 

 the manoeuvre— not wishing his company, they, instead 

 of waiting as they had promised, had taken two pairs 

 of oars and pushed on with all their might, and know- 

 ing that it would be slow rowing for one alone against 

 the rapid heavy current, they expected to get at least 

 an hour's start of him. Martin, happening to know the 

 " Plumb Gut" route, rowed his boat ashore at the right 

 point, and turning it over his head, quietly walked across 

 the narrow neck and launched it again. Arriving at the 



