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With Rod and Gun in New England 



Although, undoubtedly, there is a pleasure to be found in every kind 

 of angling, the joy of greatest intensity is by me attained in salmon fish- 

 ing. This is a sport sui ge?ie?is — a sport apart by itself ; there is noth- 

 ing like it ; it is glorious ! Perhaps one of its greatest charms lies in the 

 fact that it leads its devotee into the wildest and most picturesque of 



Photo, by W. L. t'ndeiwooil. 



Beginners. 



nature's surroundings. In its pursuit he must go to the wilderness and 

 follow the flashing rivers in their course among the grand old mountains ; 

 he must breathe an air fragrant with the odors of the balsam and the hem- 

 lock ; he much inhale the fragrance of the thousands of wild flowers, 

 which, perhaps, were " born to blush unseen " if he had not come among 

 them. It is among such scenes that the object of his search is found. 



The fish of all fish to him lives during the summer in the pellucid 

 waters of these rivers ; it is a fish full of caprices, artifices and wiles ; a 

 fish of wonderful strength and activity, a fish that cannot be conquered 

 except by an adversary possessed of skill and sportsmanlike methods, to 

 which must be added great powers of patience and endurance. But hun- 

 dreds of abler pens than mine have well described the delights of salmon 

 fishing, and I will not, therefore, longer dwell upon them here. 



