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Salmon -Fishing. 



RIVER CRAFT ON THE ST. LAWRENCE. 



cut in the jaw where fish are usually hooked, and they had gaffed him 

 as he lay unable to see the approach of the canoe. We were glad that 

 they had thus saved the fish from a lingering death, sooner or later, 

 by starvation ; but raising a blind fish to a fly, and killing him with a 

 rickety bait rod and worthless line, was too much for our credulity. 

 We never informed them that we had seen through their little fish- 

 story, and presume that they had many a laugh at having made 

 " States" men believe that blind salmon could be taken with a fly. 



Wednesday, July 1 5th, found the usually quiet and sleepy little 

 settlement of Gaspe in great commotion. Some people were out on 

 the house-tops with spy-glasses, and others rushing down to the 

 wharf, where a goodly number had already collected. Going to 

 the upper rooms of the Gaspe Hotel, to which we had just come 

 from the Dartmouth, we saw a beautiful yacht coming rapidly 



