l.i it my men seemed to think, as wo had come so far, 

 we should make a trial before ivtmning. "All 

 right; let us try," I said. We dropped the killick, 

 and in two minutes after the raft had gone by I 

 was fastened to a salmon the only one I found 

 in the pool. My canoemen told of a person who 

 used to have a small tree drawn through a pool to 

 stir the salmon up, as he expressed it, so they 

 would bite ; and, strange to say, the experiment 

 worked well. 



One night, as we were poling leisurely toward 

 camp, I saw a large night-heron perched on a log 

 which was floating down the middle of the river. 

 It was really a comical sight. I suppose the bird, 

 feeling lazy and wishing to avoid any fatigue, had 

 chosen this means of traveling; he seemed so 

 absorbed in his happiness that he scarcely deigned 

 to notice us as we passed. Gazing on him until 

 he was out of sight, we continued up the river. 



The old proverb, "It is an ill wind that blows no 

 man to good," must be a true one. On a bright, 

 crisp morning, when the logs were running very 

 thick, my wife with her canoemen made an early 

 start for a pool three miles down the river. It 

 was about the only place where there was any 

 chance of saving a fish ; for, the river being wide, 

 with the current strongest close to the left bank, 

 nearly all the logs that came down followed the cur- 

 rent toward that side, leaving a moderately clear 



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