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only kept the regulation number ; the surplus were 

 returned, with a host of smaller fish not included in 

 the list. Mr. C. S. Williams, proprietor of Lake View 

 Hotel at Long Point St. Williams, supplies motors and 

 angling requisites. 



The delightful day on Lake Erie all too soon 

 came to a close. As the motor boat raised her anchor 

 a magnificent sunset lit up the western sky. The 

 water was so smooth that the effect was mirrored 

 in an unwavering reflection. No pen could describe 

 nor brush portray the richness of the carmine or the 

 delicacy of the blue that lit the heavens. Canadian 

 sunsets are unsurpassed. As we neared the shore 

 the light was rapidly waning and the distant wood- 

 land already veiled in darkness. We passed a lotus 

 bed near enough to see the plant's broad ^' leaves 

 closing for the night. It is said to be one of the three 

 that exist outside Egypt. There is little twilight in 

 the Far West, and by the time we reached the landing 

 stage night had fallen. Everywhere there was still- 

 ness except on the borders of the wood, where the 

 exquisite notes of the vesper sparrow rang out with 

 a richness of song equalled only by the nightingale. 



Lake Erie is the head-waters of the greatest 

 natural phenomenon on the American continent — 

 the Falls of Niagara. Out of its great expanse of 

 water the river flows that plunges across the chasm, 

 and silently sinks into Lake Ontario with no sign of 

 its adventurous journey save a foam-streaked surface. 



