A CANADIAN RIVER 



I FIRST heard of the Grand Cascapedia 

 when, many long years ago, I was fishing 

 on the river Tay in company with my old 

 friend Edward Russell, afterwards Lord de 

 Clifford, and Mr. William Oakley, the well- 

 known Master of the Atherstone Hounds. 

 We were, I am sorry to say, " harling," a 

 form of fishing now generally discarded on 

 that splendid river. One morning whilst we 

 were being rowed to and fro across the pool, 

 Edward Russell pulled out of his pocket a 

 letter from the Hon. Charles Ellis, who may, 

 I suppose, be regarded as the pioneer of the 

 Cascapedia, giving an account of the sport 

 which he had been having. I have since 

 seen the full figures of which these were 

 only a portion, but even these were tremen- 

 dous and took my breath away. There were 



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