CHAPTER XIV. 



SECOND VISIT TO THE CASCAPEDIA WHO MADE UP 



THE PARTY. 



Let us to the ancient woods : I say, let us value the woods. 

 They are full of solicitations. \Thoreau. 



1 leave the town with its hundred noises, 

 Its clatter and whir of wheel and steam, 



For woodland quiet and silvery voices, 

 With a forest camp by a crystal stream. 



\G. W. Nears. 



HEBE are scores of salmon rivers 

 between Quebec and Labrador, 

 but they are not all equally at- 

 tractive. In some there are but 

 few fish ; in others the fish are 

 uniformly small ; in others still 

 there are ten grisle to one sal- 

 mon ; in still others the pools are 

 separated by great distances, and 

 many of them are subject to 

 such sudden floods and such frequent discolo- 

 ration of their waters as to render fishing pre- 

 carious and unsatisfactory, except at such remote 

 and uncertain intervals as to weary the most 

 patient angler. There are, however, a multitude 

 of rivers in which the fish are large and abundant, 

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