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or whistler, the difference of plumage possibly being 

 caused by the season. 



Four more salmon I killed that morning, making, 

 as I think our friends will agree, a handsome fore- 

 noon's work ; but as the sun was becoming very 

 powerful, and with its increased heat the confounded 

 flies were again attentive, with more than ordinary 

 repugnance I determined to unlimber, hoping that 

 Providence, in her kindness, would at some future day 

 land me on the solitary shores of this picturesque and 

 admirably- adapted river for pursuing with success and 

 ease the ever-fascinating, ever-changing, ever- exciting, 

 gentlemanly sport of salmon fishing. 



By one o'clock we weighed anchor, and after a few 

 tacks got out into open water, where a favourable 

 breeze quickly carried us from a spot that will ever 

 hold a bright, happy impression in my memory; 

 and as the sun set in golden, refulgent splendour, a 

 low line of distant, indistinct, bluish hills, were the 

 only visible marks in the horizon that remained to 

 indicate where the choicest river on which I had ever 

 wetted a fly rolled its pellucid, sparkling water to the 

 all-absorbing ocean. 



My friend, the captain, I have not met since we 

 parted at Russell's Hotel, Quebec (where he was 

 obliged to go for repairs), after drinking to auld lang 



