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scarce. Something akin to starvation 

 was lurking not very far away, and 

 every member of the party had a keen 

 personal interest in the replenishment 

 of the larder. 



We made camp where the river, flow- 

 ing out of the lake, begins a turbulent 

 career of thirty leagues to the St. Law- 

 rence. For a mile or two the current is 

 not too rapid for canoeing, and here, at 

 this season, great trout assemble on 

 their annual migration to the spawning 

 beds in the lake and the streams that 

 feed it. This at least was the somewhat 

 vague information upon which we were 

 going, and the expedition was conceived 

 for the purpose of testing the statement 

 that trout of fabulous size had been seen 

 or taken in the upper reaches of the 

 river. It is not so easy as one might 

 think to discover where the great trout 

 lie, or how best to fish for them, but it is 

 incomparably more interesting to attack 



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