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'But for general use?' asked the saint. 'Ah, then,' 

 Said the demon, 'T angle for man, not men. 

 And a thing I hate 

 Is to change my bait. 

 So I fish with a woman the whole year round. ' " 



The incident was calculated, too, to call to mind the 

 innumerable references made by Oppian to the loves 

 of the fishes in his Halieutica, the reading of which 

 humiliates, as it reminds us how many details of nat- 

 ural history were familiar to scientists sixteen and a 

 half centuries ago that the busy world of to-day has 

 no time to investigate. 



The Riviere aux Eats, to which reference has al- 

 ready been made, is for some distance above its 

 mouth a narrow, deep, sluggish stream winding be- 

 tween low banks of swampy land. A mile or two 

 from Lake Edward, however, its rapids commence, 

 and exceedingly wild and picturesque they are, the 

 first and second of them being quite precipitous in 

 their descent. In and above them are pools affording 

 the best of fly-fishing, the trout inhabiting them be- 

 ing, strangely enough, quite different in their coloring 

 from those of Lake Edward and the Jeannotte. Ex- 

 cept in the very early spring or in the month of Septem- 

 ber, the flies are a great nuisance up Eat Eiver, and a 

 good supply of a powerful repellent is necessary to 

 any degree of comfort there. Some of the lakes 

 drained by Eat Eiver, from half a day to a day's 

 journey up the stream, contain large trout, but I have 

 alwa3'^s found more success upon the river itself in 

 fly-fishing. Mr. Archibald Stuart, of Fedden House, 

 Braco, Perthshire, Scotland, had good sport above its 

 rapids while fishing with me there in June, 1894. 



