us watch him there for a while. Our big 

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salmon will keep ; he is in a rising mood ; 



."/c^ anc j w h en we get him, fishing is over for the 



Salmo/^ump day? for we have enough> 



Below the falls, which are here some ten 

 or twelve feet high, salmon are jumping 

 continually. As you watch the heavy white 

 rush of water other salmon poke their heads 

 out of the foam, look at the falls a moment, 

 and disappear. Then a silver gleam flashes 

 through some black water ; a salmon springs 

 out, flies in a great arc up to the rim of the 

 falls, just touches the falling sheet of water, 

 plunges over the brim, and disappears with 

 a victorious flash of his broad tail into the 

 swift water above. He has done it, — jumped 

 the falls, — and though the whole thing was 

 swift as light, you have the impression that 

 at last you know just how it was done. 



Down yonder are some lower falls, and 

 there you can see the salmon leaping clear 

 over them in a single spring, rising out of 

 the foam below and disappearing into the 

 swift, clear stream above, without even touch- 

 ing the falling sheet of water; but here it is 



