turned, and when some twelve feet distant from the foot of the falls made 

 the most wonderful leap ever recorded, striking the water again just above 

 the crest, and my multiplying reel served its piu-pose excellently, giving 

 the fish very little, if any, slack line. To make a long stor}^ short, I will 

 merelv add that the salmon was quite exhausted with his wonderful effort, 

 and was drawn almost unresistingly into my landing net, which I had 

 fastened at my belt and loosened for the occasion, just as the giant game 

 fish turned upon his side and would have floated down the cataract if I had 

 not taken him in just at the right instant. 



My adventure was witnessed by but a few people, onl)'^ one of whom 

 is now living ; but I always bless their memory for the aid rendered in 

 rescuing me from my perilous position. If any skeptic doubts the accuracy 

 of mv story in a single detail, I can refer him to the life-like picture drawn 

 upon the spot by an artist who witnessed the affair, and through whose 

 kindness the picture will be reproduced in the faithful chronicle of adven- 

 tures bv sea and shore. 



A FIGHT WITH A BROOK TROUT. 



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You have all no doubt heard of the monster 

 trout of the Maine lakes, where they grow to 

 an almost fabulous size, quietly remarked Dr. A. 

 T. Sanden, of New York. I had an adventure 

 up there last season, and can vouch for the game 

 r^ qualities of the brook trout in that region. I was 

 fishing in one of the Rangele}' lakes, and had 

 caught perhaps fifty trout of large size, but my 

 ^':-^'^^- ambition was, if possible, to break the record. 



F ^ After experimenting with the various flies, which 



I carried in my fly book, I at last selected a large 

 and gaudy one, nearly equaling a salmon fly in size, and made a cast in 

 a localitv where the guide ' assured me some of the largest trout con- 

 gregated. 



A rise and strike immediately followed. I knew by the vigorous 

 manner in which the trout took the fly that I had a fine gamy fish at the 

 end of the line. Such rushes and wnld leaps for liberty you j^erhaps never 



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