44 None that was killed with a fly, sir ; but my 

 father tolls of one which was speared many years 

 ago weighing over sixty pounds." 



" Well, let us go to the house now and see if this 

 one has lived luxuriously ; for should Dame Fortune 

 be kind and bring the scale down to the fifty- 

 pound notch my ambition in life will be fulfilled 

 and my happiness complete. Lift gently, James 

 forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty pounds I" I cry. 

 " Hurrah! the spring marks fifty, and the fair 

 one's broad dark train still sweeps the ground." 



Then, laying her upon a fern-covered bier, we 

 tenderly bear her to the dining-room and gaze 

 with admiration and regret on the splendor of her 

 raiment and symmetry of form. Even Mixer 

 realizes that something unusual has happened as 

 he stands in the awed presence. Presently Mrs. 

 Davis and Napoleon come in for breakfast, each 

 with a fine big fish ; but at the sight of this beau- 

 tiful river-goddess both exclaim: 

 *ed, did you kill that salmon T" 



44 Yes ; and now, after trying to do it for thirteen 

 years, I wish you were the guilty ones instead of 



This fish was hooked just before seven o'clock 

 and landed soon after. Its weight, at the Casca- 

 pedia station several hours later, was fifty and one 

 half pounds. 



I will not weary my readers with the story of my 

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