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they make. Once I hooked a couple of between three and four 

 pounds each at the same time one on a tiny Jock Scott, the other 

 on my top fly. Never was there such a sight and commotion on 

 any lake ; sometimes both were out of the water at once, sometimes 

 the one went down as the other went up; but fortunately I had not 

 paid my visits to Farlow's for nothing. The gut-cast was new and 

 held, until after a minute or two the top fish made his final bow 

 and took his departure. Then I had an opportunity of seeing 

 whether or not a ouananiche could run as well as jump. A well- 

 known New York angler, Mr. Roosevelt, had particularly asked me 

 to observe this point, as some people say the fish only jumps. This 

 particular fellow no sooner felt that he had got rid of his companion 

 in misfortune than he set to work with a series of runs that bent 

 my little trout-rod nearly down to the water, and that would have 

 been no discredit to a fresh-water grilse in any river. We got him 

 at last, though a short, thick fish weighing three and three-quarter 

 pounds." 



Disciples of the gun will find plenty of duck shoot- 

 ing upon Lake Tschotagama in the early part of Sep- 

 tember. Those in search of larger game should never 

 ascend the Peribonca without taking a rifle with 

 them, for a bear may be met with in the stream at 

 any time ; and in the months of August and Septem- 

 ber it is never difficult to find them in the brule, or 

 woods which have been swept over by fire. There is 

 such a brule a very few miles above Tschotagama, on 

 the left bank of the river in ascending it, which is a 

 favorite and fruitful resort of bear -hunters. Here 

 from the west flows in the river Brule. By ascend- 

 ing the stream some forty miles more, to do which 

 quite a number of further rapids and falls must be en- 

 countered, a portage across country and through inter- 

 vening lakes may be made so as to reach the Petite 

 Peribonca, and by descending it a new route may be 

 followed on the return trip to Lake St. John. 



