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The natives of Koberval, however, are seldom par- 

 ticular enough in their fishing to use a plummet, and 

 as their lines are usually of heavy cord with gimp 

 next the hook, the length of them is more like the 

 half of twenty-six feet than it is like twenty-six yards. 



Their general appearance and that of their outfit 

 almost recall the fisherman 



"Whose angle rod was made of sturdy oak, 

 His line a cable that no ship ere broke ; 

 His hook was baited with a dragon's tail, 

 He stood upon a rock and bobb'd for whale." 



The taking of ouananiche by these habitant fisher- 

 men of Lake St. John is rather for food than for sport, 

 like the angling attributed by old John Dennys, in his 

 remarkable Secrets of Angling, to its alleged inventor, 

 Deucalion, for the purpose of feeding the newly peo- 

 pled earth : 



"Since foode there was not any to be found, 

 For that great flood had all destroyd and drownd. 



"Then did Deucalion first the Art inuent 

 Of Angling, and his people taught the same ; 

 And to the Woods and groues with them hee went 

 Fit tooles to finde for this most needfull game ; 

 There from the trees the longest ryndes they rent, 

 Wherewith strong Lines they roughly twist and frame, 

 And of each crooke of hardest Bush and Brake, 

 They made them Hookes the hungry Fish to take." 



While the ouananiche, like the trout, can scarcely 

 be struck too quickly when felt, or when seen to take 

 the fly, there must be no undue haste in attempting 

 to hook him when he seizes bait. He takes it into 



