water above. That is probably the fish that 

 you saw vanish into the falls, ten feet below. 

 /fvycyi ir ffle n w we must follow him, if we are to learn 

 Sal/n onJlim p anyt hing more of his methods. 



For twenty years — ever since I first fished 

 the Saevogle — I had wondered how it was 

 possible for salmon to get up a waterfall 

 which was plainly impossible to leap; and 

 on reading the books I found that almost 

 every salmon fisherman for two centuries 

 had puzzled over the same problem. Stand- 

 ing under these falls, one day, and throwing 

 stones at the spots in the falling sheet of 

 water where the salmon were plunging in, 

 it occurred to me suddenly that it might be 

 possible to go in myself and find out what 

 they were doing. On two rivers I had tried 

 it unsuccessfully, and though I had glimpses 

 of salmon lying on the wet rocks inside the 

 falls, I was almost swept away in the cata- 

 ract. Here the task proved unexpectedly 

 easy; for on one side the swift flood shot 

 far out from the face of the rock, and the 

 falling sheet of water was not heavy enough 

 to knock one off his feet. So, if you don't 



