and the Maritime Provinces. 



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" That 's true, and I 've often wondered what they rise for. I 've seen 

 them rising at midges often, and at little moths and ' darning needles ' 

 (dragon flies), and I 'm sure they eat them like the trout do." 



At that moment the Doctor, who was well down the pool, hooked a 

 heavy fish which proved to be a large sea trout, and, although he gave the 

 fish all the strain his tackle would bear, it was fully five minutes before 

 the trout was landed, so gamily did it fight. 



" Five and a half pounds," shouted William across the river, when 

 the fish was killed and weighed. 



"Good," answered Hiram ; "sure it 's a beauty; it 's rarely we get a 

 heavier one." 



A Nice L,ot of Sea Trout. 



" Well," said I, " the Doctor is well down the pool and we will see if 

 we can rise our salmon." 



I changed my fly to a good-sized Popham, and drawing out a pretty 

 long line, I cast the dry fly as nearly as I could upon the spot where the 

 salmon had risen to the leaf. 



" Sure, he ought to come to such an elegant fly as that," said the 

 guide, as the feathered lure floated softly on the water, moved at intervals 

 by the short lifting of the rod. There he comes," he exclaimed, and be- 

 fore I saw the fish, for your guide has marvellous powers of vision, there 



