DAYS ON THE NEPIGON. 



a trout can swim against this long, powerful 

 current would receive little or no credence. It 

 is an insurmountable barrier fraught with 

 danger. Though Mr. Broadtail is a highly 

 finished swimmer, he has his stern limitations. 



While perhaps Nepigon trout can accom- 

 plish the impossible, I would have to be an 

 eye-witness, and then would not vouch for it ; 

 but would be charitable and considerate 

 enough to believe it a mistake or partaking of 

 the nature of an unaccountable accident or 

 the malice of a desperately frightened fish 

 that had taken his life in his hands and gone 

 it blind ; but as a traveled fishway northward, 

 never! He is no mollycoddle nor sucking 

 dove nor tenderfoot, but he would be ship- 

 wrecked before navigating three yards. 



If one did attempt it, Til warrant his com- 

 panions and playmates kicked up their heels in 

 glee and laughed until the tears streamed 

 down their cheeks when their foolish brother 

 came tumbling back, breathing hard and 

 soaked to the skin, blushing and hanging his 

 head in shame from his ineffectual efforts and 

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