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to the spoon. When we reached the bottom I 

 tucked him under my arm again, gave another 

 spring, came to the top ; the fish squirmed out again, 

 and well, I don't know how many times we 

 made the trip up and back, but just when I was 

 about tuckered, some fellows in another boat came 

 up and pulled us both in. That pick'rel weighed 

 twenty-two pounds." 



The thoughtful critic will easily separate the 

 element of historic fact from the mythical accre- 

 tions in this story, and be able to retain Jim and a 

 fishing trip and a big " pick'rel," even if compelled 

 to reject the account of the numerous subaqueous 

 excursions. 



In many of the larger inland lakes of Michigan 

 lake-trout may be found, and summer visitors vary 

 the sport of bass fishing with excursions after 

 trout. Early in the season these fish are found in 

 shallow water, along the shore, and may be taken 

 by ordinary trolling; but as the weather grows 

 warm the trout retreat to the deepest part of the 

 lake, where they can be captured only by some un- 

 usual means. The method employed does not 

 appeal strongly to a true sportsman, but he can 

 afford to try it, once, at least, for the sake of the 

 novelty. At the foot of Elk Lake lived an old man 

 who was a past-master in the art of taking these 

 deep-lying trout, and to him the visitor turned 

 when he grew satiated with bass fishing and sighed 

 for new worlds to conquer. The old fisherman has 



