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202 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



in the same suit that Adam wore when Mother Eve 

 first made his acquaintance in the Garden of Eden. 



No fig leaf or cotton or gauze or union suit under- 

 wear for " W. E." ; no, siree. They would only be an 

 impediment to him, and so the man, who had braved the 

 terrors of a winter in the Arctic regions as scientist 

 with Peary's first expedition in search of the North 

 Pole, was the first and perhaps the only man who ever 

 attempted to spear salmon in the Bear River without 

 some garment to modify the coldness of the icy waters. 



I have been writing of " spearing " salmon, but for an 

 hour or more their fierce lunges only ended in an oc- 

 casional ducking, as the fish were too nimble for them. 



But hold ! Listen to the yell and the paean of victory 

 from " W. R.," who at last has pierced a sock-eye 

 salmon through and through with his one pronged spear. 

 Bearing his trophy aloft, he paraded up and down the 

 river in his thin underwear, taunting his brothers in 

 medicine with his success and their repeated failures. 

 But, listen again ! There's a cry of joy from " W. J.," 

 who was " jabbing " at the fish down the river, and he 

 also held a sock-eye aloft, but we had seen an ex- 

 hausted salmon drifting down the river, and this three- 

 fourths dead fish he had, indeed, run his spear through, 

 so his " kill " was not allowed and we wouldn't let it 

 count. 



Finally, all three " caught on " to the curves neces- 

 sary to strike the fish fair and square, and each man 



