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Salmon -Fishing. 



FALLS AT THE NARROWS OF YORK RIVER. 



In lifting one of our canoes 

 over a slight fall, we swung her 

 around and half filled her with 

 water, soaking our blankets, 

 boxes of bread and crackers, as 

 well as sweetening the men's 

 black tea with brown sugar en 

 masse. 



Just below the Narrows 

 canoes cannot be used, but the 

 fishing must be done while 

 standing and wading in from 

 one to two and a half feet of 

 water. Rubber wading-stock- 

 ings are worn, with very large canvas shoes over them, the soles 

 being studded with soft metal nails to prevent slipping upon the 

 rocks. In a moment of excitement, while following a fish, one fre- 

 quently gets in over the tops of his stockings, and the subsequent 

 carrying of a few gallons of water in these for-the-time rubber- 

 bottles is neither comfortable nor easy. Curtis improves upon the 

 stockings by a pair of boots and trowsers, such as are used by the 

 Baptist clergy, and which permit wading above the waist. An- 

 other of his improvements is a vertically adjustable piano-stool 

 arrangement in his canoe, which, while voyaging, lets one down 



near the bottom 

 to keep the cen- 

 ter of gravity low 

 and prevent cap- 

 sizing, and which 

 when casting can 

 be turned up for a 

 high seat. This, 

 of course, is only 

 to be used as last 

 indicated when 

 one is lame or 

 very much in- 

 clined to laziness. 



ONE WAY FISH ARE LOST. 



