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CHAP. VIII. 



SALMON FISHING IN THE TRIBUTARIES OF THE SAGUENAT. 



OME, Bishop," said the 

 Captain, as we sat at the 

 breakfast table in the cabin 

 of the cutter on Monday 

 morning, " as it is raining 

 too hard for us to expect 

 any sport to-day, I will 

 V|i tie some flies, and you will 

 tell us what you know 

 about the salmon fishing 

 higher up this river." 



" My dear fellow," replied the Priest, " you are quite 

 right to avail yourself of the opportunity which this terrible 

 weather affords, for adding to your stock of flies, which is 

 easier than increasing your store of information about the 

 fishing in the Saguenay, if I am to be the source from 

 whence your knowledge is to be derived, for I have never 

 been farther up the river than we were on Saturday 

 evening, and all I know about the matter is from hearsay, 



