denly, as if by magic, there flashed upon our sight the 

 loveliest little gem of a lake imaginable, circled around 

 by great int)Utitains, with snow reaching nearly down to 

 the water. We at once jointetl our rods, and tried "first 

 and last" li\e grasshoppers, of which we had plenty. 

 Hardly had I struck my line into the water when a 

 speckled beauty took the hook, and then another and 

 another, and for a couple of hours it was nothing l)ut a 

 swish of the line and a battle with the trout. 



Soon we had as many as we could carry. Mean- 

 while, the other three who were left, had, with the assist- 

 ance of the guide, who had returned to help them, resur- 

 rected an old .scow and crossed. About two o'clock they 

 appeared with a welcome lunch. The car log book of 

 game credits the part\' with a catch of some three hun- 

 dred and fifty speckled trout, certainly enough to last us 

 a few days, as we have tlRin carefully packed away in 

 the refrigerator. 



Next morning our car was coupled to the Pacific 

 express and hauled to that wonderful spot, the great 

 "Selkirk (jlacier." An excursion was promptly made to 

 the glacier, which is said to be seven miles long, two 

 miles broad and 2000 feet thick, of solid ice. A fine 

 object lesson is here obtained of the resistless power of the 

 ice in crushing, powdering and nio\ing enormous masses 

 of rocks. Avalanches, landslides and terrific storms are 

 of such frecpK-nl occvnvncc durinj; the winter and spring 

 thai the occupants of the railroad hotel and station are in 

 daily terror of tla-ir lives. 



luirly this morning a cou])le of onr s])orlsmen, armed 

 with rifies. starte-d away from the car hoping to get a 



