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bass. Mr. Thayer and Charlie waded in a few steps from the 

 shore, and with the pollywogs that Leroy furnished them, 

 caught bass almost as fast as they could handle them. But 

 after watching the sport for a while, Moulton and I pulled out 

 on the main lake again. We tied up in several favorable 

 looking places, and tried still fishing, but did not have as 

 good success as in trolling. We could catch small rock bass, 

 and perch by the dozen, but we were loaded for larger game 

 than these, and didn't care to waste time with them, so we 

 returned to our spoon victuals. 



We went up to the Narrows, about four miles from camp, and 

 then returned, having taken as many bass as we cared for, and 

 had all the sport we wanted. Several of them were very fine 

 ones weighing three to three and a-half pounds each, and 

 one weighing four pounds. The other members of the party 

 had equally fine sport, and some of them showed larger strings 

 than I did. Mr. Powers " took the cake" for this day's 

 work by scoring another pike that weighed exactly twenty 

 pounds, and measured forty-three and a-half inches in length. 

 We skinned this fish, and Mr. Powers has since had him 

 mounted. The total catch for the day weighed two hundred 

 and ten pounds. 



The next morning when we awoke it was raining heavily. 

 The clouds were thick, low, and almost black, and the rain 

 came down in a steady, settled manner, which indicated that it 

 had set in for all day. It afforded a gloomy outlook for the 

 day's sport. The majority of the party avowed their deter- 

 mination to stay in camp, but two or three of the more 

 enthusiastic said they were not afraid of a little water, applied 

 externally, and they would go out. They said they only 

 objected to water when it became necessary to take it in- 

 ternally. 



While we were rigging our tackle, and breakfast was in 



