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TROUT FISHING IN UTAH. 



LL boys are interested in wholesome stories 

 told in a manner that they can comprehend. 

 The narrative should always be keenly alive 

 to the subject, however, and select it with a view of 

 attracting close attention, and demeanor, manner 

 of delivery, and earnestness must be so studied as to 

 be effectual. When a young man my experiences 

 on the frontier afnong the Ute Indians, were of a 

 character that might have been woven into dime 

 novels, but there was much more satisfaction in giving 

 , them to the boys first-handed than to have them 



jl prepared with embejishments and devoured through 



yellow covers. They should be told in such a way as 

 not to make the boys want to wear belts, bowie 

 knives and revolvers. It afforded me much amuse- 

 ment to relate stories to the boys, to be followed by 

 explanation of disasterous effects that would detract 

 from the usual inclinations to go and do likewise. 



A fishing experience had while going from Camp 

 Douglass near Salt Lake City through Strawberry 

 Valley to the South was much appreciated by my 

 son, and was re-told to him several times in order 

 to afford him the desired satisfaction. Our party 

 on that trip comprised several Government Commis- 

 sioners, myself, and thirty-five United States soldiers 

 as guard, under Lieutenant Penney. Two ambulances 

 and two military wagons, drawn by four mules each, 

 made up the Caravan. We had traveled through 

 Echo Canyon, crossed the Provo River, tipped over 



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