140 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. 



these daily bulletins. A fatal termination of the 

 malady was only avoided, under Providence, by 

 careful home nursing and the best medical attend- 

 ance, aided by a strong constitution and an indom- 

 itable will. The announcement of his hopeful 

 convalescence was a pleasant piece of news, and 

 when word came that he had " started for the Cas- 

 capedia," the Judge was eloquent in the expression 

 of his gratitude and pleasure. But when one 

 delightful Saturday morning he was seen in the 

 distance snugly ensconced midships of his canoe, 

 there was great joy in camp and preparations were 

 made to give him a fitting welcome. 



The Shedden pool, directly in front of the camp, 

 had been left unfished for two days that he might 

 enjoy it at its best. And it never " panned out " 

 more richly than during the first afternoon he 

 fished it. In five hours he landed four salmon, 

 besides losing one through the stupidity of his 

 gaffer, after a two hours' fight. They averaged 

 twenty-seven pounds, the largest weighing thirty - 

 pounds. With the capture of his first fish the last 

 vestige of his illness left him. There is no medi- 

 cine equal to the rise, strike and struggle of a 

 thirty-pound salmon to bring back lost vigor to 

 an appreciative convalescent. 



The advent of the General among us was cele- 

 brated by the guides in the evening by a dance. 



