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" Jump," followed by a long train of sixteen other 

 cayuses of every variety of color and character, 

 the most notable of all being a white pony called 

 " Tinker." At some remote and unidentified period 

 of her life she had bucked and killed a tradesman 

 who bestrode her against her will, and thereby, as 

 in the old Norse legends, she had inherited his 

 strength, his wickedness, and his name. And when, 

 after many adventures, I came back from this 

 strange land and told the story of its fishes, other 

 men were sent out from Washington with nets and 

 buckets. They gathered up the trout and carried 

 them to the rivers above the falls ; and now all the 

 brooks and pools of the old lava-bed, the fairest 

 streams in the world, are full of their natural 

 inhabitants. 



And so to-day in the Gardiner, the Gibbon, the 

 Nez Perce, and especially in Firehole River, and 

 in the dark green depths of Shoshone Lake, 

 one can find angling such as Izaak Walton never 

 dreamed of. And it is now, more than ever before, 

 " good luck for any man to be on the good side of 

 the man that knows fish." 



