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you wait anxiously listening to every sound of 

 an approach. You picture J., climbing over 

 rocky places, scrambling through bogs, en- 

 couraging his hounds, etc., and realising how 

 warm the day is, your mind is filled with 

 sympathy and appreciation while J. lies sound 

 asleep as I once stalked him down/' 



This conduct is disgusting, and I strongly 

 advise men to go to Van Doughnuts, or procure 

 some one recommended by Mr. Cox, of Port 

 San field. 



During our explorations both MacLaren and 

 I saw passenger-pigeons three times, and my 

 theory, that many presumably extinct birds have 

 fled like the Indians to remote unknown spots, 

 in this case is true. Travellers to the Cascades 

 added to zoology within recent years the ou- 

 ka-la, and doubtless in those wild, unknown 

 lands others exist or remain in hiding. 



" I think I may assert," writes Rowan, " with- 

 out fear of contradiction, that the angling in 

 Canada is the finest in the world. Many 

 thousands of trout streams and some hundreds 

 of salmon rivers discharge their waters into the 

 Gulf and River St. Lawrence. From Lake 

 Ontario down to the Straits of Belle Isle a 



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