smoke; others, as if they knew the spot, 



plunge into a wet hollow, rest an instant .^~ ^ 



from the shock, then wriggle and leap to / 



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the hollows above. Here is one that dashes 

 in and lights fairly in the great crevice at 

 your shoulder, on the bodies of three or four 

 other salmon that are lying there gasping and 

 struggling feebly. In an instant his broad tail 

 is threshing violently, pushing him upward in 

 desperate flappings and wrigglings, up over 

 the rock, over the bodies of his fellows ; rest- 

 ing here, leaping boldly there over a little 

 ridge, up and up, till with one last effort he 

 plunges over the brim and is gone. 



However it may be on other rivers, the 

 problem here is an amazingly simple one. 

 The salmon simply leap into the falls, trust- 

 ing to luck or instinct, or more probably to 

 knowledge gained from previous experience, 

 to break through the sheet of falling water 

 and land in one of the numerous hollows 

 or crevices in the face of the rock. Then, 

 if not stunned or swept away in the first 

 effort, they struggle up the side of the rock 

 itself, and over the bodies of their less 



