TO KOSKACODDE 221 



The next morning I sent Steve out early to 

 spy the country. He came back having seen 

 only one very small stag and three does. Joe 

 was dispatched to cut up yesterday's stag, 

 and bring in the head and meat, while I 

 decided to fish the river down and go out 

 again in the evening on the chance of another 

 stag. 



Taking Steve with me, I fished down for about 

 two miles. There was some lovely water, but 

 all the fish were lying in the pools and none in 

 the streams. 



In the lowest pool I reached I got a fine fish 

 of 3 ib. and five other good ones. By lunch 

 I had twenty-one trout and five char, weighing 

 19 Ife. ; a number of small ones I had put back. 

 The trout were all onannaniche and as game a 

 fish for its size as I ever want to catch ; in the 

 heavy water they gave grand sport. Coming 

 back to camp we saw two old geese and a fine 

 lot of young ones feeding in a marsh across a 

 small lake. Seeing us they kept cackling and 

 moving higher up into the reeds. We both 

 went back to camp to fetch the rook rifle, so 

 making a great mistake, for had one of us 

 remained where we were we certainly would 

 have got a shot, for they would not have left 

 the marsh so long as some one was in sight, 

 guarding the narrow mouth of the river by 



