enemies. A lively young seal plunged after , 

 Kopseep ; but the grilse was too quick, and 

 the seal turned aside after a large and lazier *, -^ 



fish. So he gained the fresh, water safely, *$C^/*rfffi 

 and journeyed swiftly upward through the 

 lakes, jumping and playing in his strength, 

 till he came to the first swift run of water 

 below the little falls. Here he put his nose 

 down in an eddy behind a sunken rock, and 

 caught the current on his fins and tail in 

 such a way as to hold himself in place with- 

 out conscious effort, resting for his first leap 

 and for the hard rush through the rapids 

 above the falls. 



While he waited here Kopseep felt his 

 stomach shrinking within him. There were 

 fish in the river, — minnows and trout and 

 eels, and lazy chub that the mink and fish- 

 hawk were catching, — but Kopseep watched 

 them indifferently and suffered them to go 

 their own ways unmolested. Strangely enough 

 all his voracious appetite of the past few 

 months had left him — and lucky it was too ; 

 for otherwise a single run of salmon would 

 destroy every trout and frog and little fish 



