space to the right in which to cast About an 

 hour after Mrs. Davis had left, I called to the men 

 and told them to get ready, as I was going down 

 to see if there would be any danger in fishing this 

 pool By the time we were ready to start, the logs 

 had increased in numbers, making the running most 

 difficult We soon came in sight of the other 

 canoe, and saw that it was in the midst of the logs 

 in the worst part of the river. Both men were 

 standing, trying to push the logs away, while my 

 wife, sitting fiat in the canoe, was playing a big 

 fish. Sometimes the rod would be held under 

 water to let the logs run over the line ; then up it 

 would go, to be as quickly put down again, allow- 

 ing more to pass. When we had arrived within 

 one hundred yards of her canoe, I told my men to 

 seize their poles, the bowman to watch the logs 

 as they came near us and push them toward the 

 left shore, while James in the stern was to hold the 

 canoe. In a few minutes we had a clear space for 

 Mrs. Davis to play the fish, and shouted to her to 

 pull as she never had pulled before. She turned the 

 salmon ; he reluctantly left the swift current, and, 

 with a tremendous leap, sprang ten feet toward 

 shallow water. This was just what was wanted, 

 for if he could be kept away from the logs he was 

 sure to be landed, if the hook held. By dropping 

 a little farther down-stream we were enabled to 

 push nearly every log away, thus giving a larger 



74 



