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derwood along the shore, and Duncan called my attention to 
a bear that, having discovered us, was making off with all the 
speed possible. I could not turn to look from my salmon, for 
it had not yet decided upon what course of tactics to pursue. 
After a few minutes, when the salmon had concluded to run 
the hook out, I turned to see, but the bear was no longer in 
sight. After several runs, tacks, shifts, sweeps, and leaps, I 
brought the salmon home as gentle as a kitten, so that it 
seemed a pity to gaff it. 
My friends had been fully as lueky as I had, and, as the 
flies were disappearing, and we had examined our plateau, 
walled by mountains and watered by beautiful rivers, we 
concluded to digest a good dinner by admiring the works of 
nature and enjoying the aurora borealis and lunar bow. 
Rosy were our dreams; but, be it remembered, one of the 
party began to sigh for Susan Jane. 
The following day, and for several days thereafter, the 
sport was about the same. The river soon began to shrink 
and clarity, and as the salmon became more scarce, the nun- 
bers of sea trout increased. Sea trout are preciscly like those 
of Long Island. Their voyage to sea renders them as white 
and plump as are those of the Willows, below Oba. Snedicor’s, 
and perhaps cleaner and whiter; but they are the same fish 
in ichthyological peculiarity. 
The next day that I fished Ratthng Run I took two salmon 
at its mouth, where the eddy was formed by the confluence 
with the St. John; and I cast again to the foot of the rapid, 
where my fly was usually drawn into the eddy, and hetore 
it fairly touched the water a salmon took it, and leaped some 
ten fect up stream, dropping it while thus leapmg. As T saw 
the tly fall, was in the act of retrieving my line, when an- 
other salmon was fast to the fly, and T broke the top of my 
rod. This proved to me that the movement of a salmon is 
too swilt to be followed by the eye. I played and killed the 
salmon after the rod was broken, and my gaffer landed him. 
Before I could splice another top to my Martin Kelly (a 
