"You will find all the flies and leaders you 

 need in the tin box. Mixer and I are off now ; 

 we are to join Mr. Heckscher at luncheon down by 

 Harrison's. Are you coming f " 



" Not to-day, thanks. It is so far to pole back, I 

 should lose all my fishing." 



" Now I am ready, Mixer. Come, old boy ! " And 

 off he scampers to the landing, where I find him 

 comfortably seated in the canoe. "Sit here by 

 me and keep quiet, old fellow! As soon as 

 we hook a salmon you may be as joyful as 

 you like. 



" Do you think, James, there is any use trying 

 back of the island T " 



" Not to-day, sir ; the water has fallen so much, 

 it is too shallow in there. Barter's should be 

 good, though. You had better whip that over on 

 our way to Smith's." Dropping a little farther 

 down the pool than yesterday, the canoe is again 

 silently anchored. 



" Did you see that fish jump T " shouted William. 



" No ; where T I was getting a fly." 



" My, but he was a big one ! That was a forty- 

 pound salmon." 



A re you quite sure it was not a slink T " 



"A slink! No, sir. No slink about that; he 

 was too wide." 



" What say you, James T Can we prove it T " 



4t The only way is to hook him, sir." 

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