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of the grand sport I had already experienced, I 

 made no other cast and retired perfectly contented. 

 The beautiful fish was laid down lovingly in the 

 bottom of the canoe and borne in triumph to camp, 

 where fish and fisher were given such hearty wel- 

 come amid such hilarious enthusiasm as was be- 

 fitting " the cause and the occasion." 



In the afternoon of the same day I killed a twen- 

 ty-three pound salmon in the same pool in twenty 

 minutes, having, I was sorry to learn on getting 

 back to camp, monopolized the luck of the day, no 

 other member of the party having had so much as 

 a rise. But I was soon eclipsed, both in size and 

 number how. when, where, by whom, under 

 what circumstances, and amid what intense excite- 

 ment, I will try and describe anon. 



