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sensation have something very pleasurable yet in 

 reserve. 



The point selected for our first camp was eight 

 miles from New Richmond, and in the immediate 

 neighborhood of several of the best pools on the 

 river. There is no desirable fly-fishing, at any 

 season of the year, below them. Tide-water, 

 within which seine-fishing is allowed, extends 

 nearly up to them, and as for some reason with 

 which I am not sufficiently familiar to discourse 

 salmon do not readily, if ever, rise to a fly until 

 they enter fresh water, it is never deemed worth 

 while to wet your line until these pools are reached. 



On arriving at our destination, we found Chief 

 Justice RITCHIE, of New Brunswick, and Chief 

 Justice G-BAY, of Massachusetts, in camp, awaiting 

 our arrival to move up higher in their pursuit of 

 sport. They gave us a most cordial welcome so 

 cordial and so full of cheerful heartiness and good 

 humor as to instantly dispel the reverential awe 

 with which plain, unlearned laymen are wont to 

 look upon such eminent expounders of law and 

 dispensers of justice. They had doffed their er- 

 mine and bade us welcome with unlaced dignity 

 and grace, in flannel shirts and well-worn trousers. 

 I have already referred to the buoyant spirits and 

 charming hilarity of the Chief Justice of New 

 Brunswick. He seemed an embodiment of good 



