WITH ROD A fit) GUH 



IN NEW ENGLAND fijsiD TtfE MARITIME PROVINCES. 



CHAPTER I. 



The delights of salmon fishing. — Our arrival at camp. — First 

 blood. — First salmon. — The doctor's theory. — Nature's laws 



must be obeyed. destruction of races of animals. possible 



extirpation of the moose. distribution and natural history 



of the moose. methods of moose-hunting. description of 



a moose fight.— Size of moose. — Tenderfoot luck. — Distri- 

 bution AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CARIBOU. VARIETIES OF THE 



caribou. caribou in nova scotia and newfoundland. the 



common deer is widely distributed. abundance of deer in 



Maine. — Natural history of the deer. — Methods of hunting 

 it. — Destructiveness of "jack hunting." — Sounds of the night. 



O those who have no taste or inclination for " the gentle 

 art," the charms it possesses are entirely unappreci- 

 able, and, to "go a-fishing" often means to them an 

 absurd waste of time and an expenditure of physical 

 exertion quite incommensurate with the degree of 

 pleasure that can possibly be attained. 

 Fortunately, the number of these sceptics is not only small, but it is 

 rapidly decreasing, and I do not hesitate to say that among all the field 

 sports, none to-day occupies a higher position or awakens among its devo- 

 tees a greater enthusiasm than does that of angling. Of course, there are 

 many kinds of angling, ranging from that followed by the boy, who, with 

 willow or alder rod in hand, seeks the dace and minnows in the rippling 

 brook, to that pursued by vigorous man who follows and does battle with 

 the princely salmon or the gigantic tarpon, — but they all have their fasci- 

 nation. 



I have, in my many years' experience with rifle and shot gun, taken 

 my share of great game and small, and have tasted the pleasures of vari- 

 ous other sports that men indulge in ; but nothing has given me a greater 

 enjoyment than I have found with rod and line, and nothing now affords 

 me a keener delight than the feeling that I may perhaps, in coming years, 

 have a few more outings on the northern streams. 



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