ANGLER'S FLIES AND HOW TO TIE 



slider, descending again to the ocean, and grew 

 gross and heavy with coarse feeding. But thou, 

 unsalted salmon of the foaming floods, not land- 

 locked, as men call thee, but choosing of thine 

 own free-will to dwell on a loftier level, in the 

 pure, swift current of a living stream, hast 

 grown in grace and risen to a higher life. Thou 

 art not to be measured by quantity, but by 

 quality, and thy five pounds of pure vigor will 

 outweigh a score of pounds of flesh less vitalized 

 by spirit. Thou feedest on the flies of the air 

 and thy food is transformed into an aerial pas- 

 sion for flight as thou springest across the pool, 

 vaulting toward the sky. Thine eyes have grown 

 large and keen by peering through the foam, 

 and the feathered hook that can deceive thee 

 must be deftly tied and delicately cast. Thy 

 tail and fins, by ceaseless conflict with the rapids, 

 have broadened and strengthened, so that they 

 can flash thy slender body like a living arrow up 

 the fall. As Lancelot among the knights, so art 

 thou among the fish, the plain-armored hero, the 

 sunburnt champion of all the water-folk." 



This ability of salmon to surmount falls of a 

 considerable height in their ascent of rivers to 

 spawn never fails to incite the wonderment of 

 the observer. In some instances they accom- 

 plish a clean jump through the air of over 

 twenty feet in the opinion of Dr. Robert T. 

 Morris, who measured an eighteen-foot leap, and 



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