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escape. But he was managed so splendidly that 

 at the end of an hour and a half all the lookers-on 

 voted him sure to be bagged. Directly below the 

 pool where he was struck, and to which he had 

 been restricted, was a heavy rapids which the 

 canoe-men were anxious, if possible, to avoid. 

 They advised, therefore, rather than to allow the 

 fish to shoot these rapids, that he should be, as 

 gently as possible, coaxed over to a cove of deep 

 water lying behind some large rocks above the 

 rapids and near the middle of the pool. This 

 advice was taken, and in effecting the change of 

 base the fish gave a series of leaps which revealed 

 the full dimensions of the largest salmon, by many 

 pounds, I ever saw. When asked for an estimate 

 of his weight, the Indian gaffer simply held up his 

 paddle to indicate that that, in his opinion, was 

 about his measure. The desired cove was securely 

 reached. The fish changed his tactics from leaping 

 to sulking, as they most generally do in deep, still 

 water, and at the end of two full hours was seem- 

 ingly as far from being a dead fish as at any mo- 

 ment during the struggle. Thinking he would be 

 able to manage him better and hold him more 

 comfortably on the rock than in the canoe, Mr. 

 DUN made the transfer, sitting down as coolly and 

 unflurried as if he were casting up the interest on 

 a long note instead of fighting a hard battle with 



