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William S. decided that he would try if we could not catch some 

 lake trout, although we had been told before we left Banff, that 

 we would have no such good luck, as the fishing season was over. 

 Notwithstanding this he went out in a canoe and saw a large 

 number of small grayling and, at once, concluded that, if 

 we should have any luck, it would be by setting lines in the lake 

 upon which a live grayling was placed. He immediately made a 

 loop of fine brass wire and placed it on a stick and set himself to 

 catch grayling with the loop. In a very short time, he had col- 

 lected a number and immediately set to work to place them on 

 hooks of lines that he had prepared. He paddled up the lake, a 

 short distance, and threw a hook and line overboard and tied one 

 end of the line to a block of wood that floated on the surface and 

 so left it. He did this with a number of lines and, in a short time, 

 I told him that I could see one of the floats going up the lake and 

 he immediately got into the canoe and followed it up and found 

 he had caught a large salmon trout. This satisfied us that we 

 would get all we wanted, and the fact was that, by the time we 

 left the end of the lake, we had smoked trout to last us to the end 

 of our trip, besides eating all the fresh fish we desired. We made 

 many trips to various points on the lake, but our chief one was 

 to Mount Aylmer, which was the highest mountain of the district. 

 The day we made the ascent, it began to pour when we were 

 about 9,000 feet up and continued the whole afternoon. I sent 

 William S. to hurry down to the camp and save our outfit from 

 being endangered by the rain while I walked down slowly myself. 

 After we came to the head of the lake, we told our friends of our 

 wonderful success in catching trout and they decided that they 

 would outdo us and, so, a little later, they came up to our hotel 

 with a fine fish that weighed, as they said, 32 pounds. The 

 greatest one we had caught had weighed 28 pounds, but, in ex- 

 amining the fish, William S. noticed that its mouth was sewed up, 

 but said nothing and, later, after showing us that they had done 

 so much better than we had, they went up to the C.P.R. Hotel 

 and I followed them up. We were there examining the fish again 

 and a number of Englishmen there said that they had never seen 

 such a fine fish before and I, having my doubts, and remembering 



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