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in point of fact he who is born anywhere between the 

 Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, and between Lady Frank- 

 lin Bay and Cape Horn, is really an American, I see 

 that Europeans, by common consent, apply this name dis- 

 tinctively to our own countrymen, and I find that our 

 Canadian neighbors in practice acquiesce therein. It is a 

 name too agreeable to the sentiments with which we re- 

 gard our country to be either rejected or ignored — at least 

 by me. 



If the reader, whom I assume to be a good angler, 

 should meet one equipped for fly-fishing, should salute him 

 with the customary " What luck ?" should receive the an- 

 swer that quite a number had been caught, and should 

 then find the basket filled with nothing but suckers, he 

 might not say much, but he would do some pretty lively 

 thinking not altogether flattering to him of the suckers. 



So on a salmon-stream. Though the angler equipped 

 with a salmon-rod be up to his knees in trout, not one of 

 less than five pounds, notwithstanding, unless salmon 

 have rewarded his efforts, he must reply to the usual 

 greetiug "What luck?" — "None." Trout are regarded 

 as vermin in a salmon-river — as a source of annoyance, 

 and not of sport. 



On a salmon-stream, and in this book, the word " fish" 

 means " salmon." All others are alluded to only by their 

 distinctive names. 

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