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successful, for I hooked a salmon, which I landed in 

 a very short time. Although this fish had all the 

 appearances of being fresh run he afforded very 

 little sport, and but that he was well- formed, solid, 

 and had not lost the sea-lice, I should have been 

 inclined to believe that he was a spent fish. As 

 such an occurrence has happened to me before, I 

 think that the most satisfactory elucidation is that 

 he had just arrived in fresh water, and had 

 not had time to recover from the fatigue of his 

 journey. 



The afternoon of the first day of my visit Master 

 Jock had amused himself catching chub, and, boy- 

 like, had made a cache in the sand in which he 

 deposited about a couple of dozen. On passing this 

 spot I found that it had been visited by bears the 

 previous night, who had devoured all the results of the 

 lad's prowess. From the footprints left on the sand, 

 I concluded that the bruin party consisted of an old 

 lady and a couple of young hopefuls. Doubtless good 

 sport could be had here trapping. A few properly- 

 constructed bowers, with hanging baits and good traps, 

 would give the hunter abundant and remunerative 

 employment. 



At the head of the fun I recommenced fishing, and 

 in less than ten minutes had struck and risen three 



