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great improvement on the Castle Connell rod) the shoal had 
either passed by, or otherwise had concluded to decline my 
flies, and I was obliged to forego the amusement of again 
playing a salmon that day. 
As there appeared no prospect for the river rising soon, we 
began to think seriously of dividing the party, and two of us 
taking gatfers and canoes, and going to the upper fills, twen- 
ty-seven miles above. The next morning, however, was show- 
ery, and the river had risen more than a foot during the night; 
we therefore concluded to defer going up the river until the 
prospective rai should have subsided. The fitful showers 
of the morning increased to a steady and heavy rain in the 
afternoon, and both the general and banker met with fine 
sport, taking several salmon of fine size. This day the gen- 
eral evinced a commendable perseverance, for, in the heaviest 
shower, if a salmon parted his line and carried away his fly, 
he would forthwith stop where he was, and tie a fly in a 
drenching rain, attach it to his leader, and proceed to casting. 
He lost several large fish that day, and saved only three ; 
one of these he hooked in the pectoral fin of the left side of 
the fish, on the opposite side from the general, as the fish 
started down stream, leading the general at double-quick 
time. Iwas sweeping the pool at the mouth of Rattling 
Run when I saw the general hastening down the St. John, 
along the shore. The rain was drenching. He wore rubber 
overalls, overcoat, and hat; the brim of his hat turned under 
across the forehead, giving him the air of enthusiasm so fine- 
ly represented in the picture of Napoleon when he commenced 
crossing the Alps. Of course there was the slight difference 
of our general being on foot; but, with his rod stretching 
high in air, the storm catching his loose garment, the hat 
with brim turned under and giving it the military chapeau 
shape, the towt ensemble was all energy and action. Down 
swept the general. Rattling Run had swollen considerably, 
and was three feet deep and very rapid just above the mouth, 
into which the general dashed and waded across, holding on 
