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ed upon its glassy surface, lay Lake Harriet, 
as if inviting us to cast in our lines and give 
it life for a brief time. The guide started 
along its lovely banks in search of his skiff, 
which he said was somewhere in the lake; 
and in his absence we got out our tackle and 
began our sport. Hardly had I cast in my 
line ere it was taken greedily and I landed 
a black bass which would weigh fully a pound. 
My wife became immediately as enthusiastic 
as myself, and as soon as her line could be 
start about two o’clock. But the guide, who 
had been viewing the string and thinking of 
the tramp back to the railroad, said to me, 
‘‘ How many fish do you want to catch to-day, 
Mr. Munson?” I answered that I was ab- 
solutely indifferent whether I had a thousand 
or five thousand, and he remarked, ‘‘ Well, I 
thought I would just ask you, for we have 
about all we can carry home now, and if you 
catch any more it will only be -waste.” We 
counted them and found forty, that averaged 
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adjusted she followed me to the log on which 
I stood and cast in, both of us landing beauties 
immediately. The guide returned in a few mo- 
ments to find six fine bass lying in the grass; 
and getting into the skiff, he paddled us around 
to different points on the luke, at all of which 
we had equally good sport. I never saw bass 
so gamey or so plentiful. We fished actually 
till we were tired of catchtng them—-if such 
a fish story can be believed coming from an 
amateur. At twelve o’clock we came ashore 
for aluncb and rest, intending to take a fresh 
about one pound each, and we stopped right 
I believe we could easly have caught 
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an hundred more in the afternoon. 
very uniformly in size, not varying an ounce, 
I think, and they furnish as fine sport to the 
angler as any fish he can take. We used 
minuows, or rather small parts of minnows; 
for we very soon concluded not to waste 
whole ones on them. We fished with neither 
sinkers nor floats, simply casting the baited 
hook as far out as the rod would permit it to 
be thrown, and generally drawing it in before 
