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Salmon -Fishing. 



just the thing to have a man standing on his head in a birch-bark 

 canoe every time he gets "a rise," or the canoe takes a little water 

 running down rapids. The experienced angler chooses a friend who 

 is deliberate, and takes all ills philosophically, and, if possible, one 

 with that fortunate disposition which permits him to keep both his 

 head and his temper under all circumstances. Other things being 

 equal, he selects an admirer and follower of Brillat-Savarin, for he 

 has ever remarked that one who fully enjoys and appreciates the 

 best of dinners is just the one to endure with equanimity the worst, 

 if no better is attainable. 



To be eighteen miles from the main camp when fish are 

 rising as fast as they can be killed, and to have but three 

 pieces of pilot-bread for the angler and his two men, and to 

 be forced to go without supper and breakfast, or else give up 

 the sport and return, will bring the bad out of any man if it is 

 in him. 



Your companionable angler need not always take things quite 

 as coolly as did a well-known editor who, once upon a time, 

 while engaged in pulling in a blue-fish, after sawing his fingers 

 with a hundred or more feet of line, was seized with hunger and 

 fatigue, and, taking a hitch about a cleat, satisfied his inner man 

 with sardines and 

 crackers. To the 

 surprise of all his 

 companions, after 

 finishing his lunch 

 and resting his 

 fingers, he pulled 

 in the fish, which 

 had swallowed the 

 hook so far down 

 that it had to be 

 cutout. Of course, 

 the first few feet of 

 the line which he 

 used was wired so 

 that it could not 

 be bitten off. 



THE PHILOSOPHICAL ANGLER. 



