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commended the place to the young footman who had 

 accompanied me from England, who loved to employ 

 his leisure hours in whipping the tributary burns and 

 streams for small trout, which he used proudly to lay 

 out beside the silvery salmon, grilse, and sea-trout we 

 generally brought in and arranged in a row by the 

 steps at the back door, and provided him with a couple 

 of artificial minnows, and gave him permission to use 

 them from the bank at the mouth of the glacier stream. 

 The experiment proved only too successful. He re- 

 turned minus his cast and minnows, and with the 

 middle joint of his rod broken. The big fish were 

 there all right enough, and as hungry as ever, but 

 they were too much for his skill and tackle, and he 

 was no match for them in the swift broad stream. 



I have no doubt that an experienced angler with 

 proper appliances might have secured quite a big 

 basket there by spinning, but it was not worth while 

 to waste time over the experiment, as the ugly brutes 

 were unfit for human food, and the river was full of 

 " metal more attractive." I find among my old photo- 

 graphs snapshots of my wife and myself holding 

 up the cannibal and its meal, but I fear that if I pray 

 them in aid as evidence to the truth of my story, I 

 shall be met by a quotation from Longfellow's poem 

 of " Othere, the old sea captain," and his discovery of 

 the North Cape 



" And to the King of the Saxons 

 In witness of his truth, 

 Raising his noble head, 

 He stretched his brown hand, and said, 

 ' Behold this walrus tooth.' " 



Strange things do occur in the experience of every 



