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for the river again, when I would doff the dry clothes and re- 
place them by wet wading ones and shoes, with thick woolen 
half hose—sometimes two pairs—in a very large pair of shoes, 
Wide-soled pegged bottoms are the best. This changing of 
dresses was our daily modus operandi ; and I waded, bathed, 
changed dress, whipped, played salmon, and was bitten by 
flies until I reduced my weight more than twenty pounds. 
I therefore suggest salmon-angling as the best training that 
a person can indulge in whose adiposity preponderates. This 
system has the advantage of “ Banting on Corpulence,” be- 
cause, while it reduces the amount of fat or adipose matter, 
it hardens the muscles, and thus improves the wind and phys- 
ical power of a man. Ifa person desires training so as to 
endure great fatigue, and render him more active and supple, 
T advise him to forthwith apply for a salmon-river; and, aft- 
er having secured a lease of it for the usual term of nine 
years, to send a good, trusty man there next April, and let 
him employ a couple of Canadian halfbreeds, buy a couple 
of bark canoes, to be had for fifteen dollars each, and let your 
man build a couple of log huts at the foot of each of the prin- 
cipal rapids or falls, and let him cover them well with birch 
bark, and line them throughout with the bark, so as to keep 
out the flies. A chimney is quite unnecessary, as a smudge 
fire in the middle of the cabin will keep the flies away, if 
musquito-netting covers each window or aperture left to ad- 
mit light. Then I should advise visiting the river as early 
as the 15th of June, and angling until the end of July. This 
plan will insure a month of good fishing, and no trouble 
from the effects of flies worth naming. In fact, it will un- 
bend the mind, invigorate the body, and renew your lease 
of life. 
Of biting flies, the following, written by the Bishop of 
Quebee while on a journey up the Red River, in his “Songs 
of the Wilderness,” is truthfully expressive; 
