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party brought a tent and lived more luxuriously 

 under canvas during a longer outing. At last a 

 goodly guild of honest anglers built an unpreten- 

 tious but comfortable clubhouse with two rooms 

 on the ground floor, one of which was kitchen, 

 dining-room, and living-room, the other a sleeping- 

 apartment fitted up with two tiers of bunks, which 

 were supplemented by others in the loft. There 

 were a cook-stove, a big coffee-pot, kettles, and 

 more than one capacious frying-pan, also a table 

 and seats, but the primitive character of a genuine 

 camp was still maintained. Everything was con- 

 ducted in a free-and-easy manner, without any 

 attempt at style or luxurious living. 



To supply the demands of the frying-pans and 

 for sport, which, though dull as watching a runway 

 for deer, quite satisfied their modest desires, these 

 men anchored their boats on the reefs and fished 

 from daybreak to nightfall with the philosophical 

 patience of honest anglers. When the fish were 

 biting well there was lively work hauling in the 

 sixty or one hundred feet of line hand over hand, 

 with a stout pike-perch and a strong current to 

 fight against, but when there was a long time be- 

 tween bites it was dull enough. A stiff cedar pole 

 with wire guides and a cleat at the butt to wind 

 the line on was the approved tackle by which the 

 fish was brought to boat in the briefest possible 

 time. 



