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smudge, and you hurry along to seek the protection of its 

 friendly though almost blinding smoke. 



Nob. You say you cannot fish the still waters without a 

 boat ; where do you get one if you are far away from your 

 quarters ? 



Nes. Part of a guide's business is to have some sort of a 

 boat on all the waters where he may be required to pilot the 

 angler during the summer ; if on a stream of alternate rapids 

 and still water, any kind of a light boat or scow is concealed 

 in the undergrowth along the bank ; if a distant lake is to be 

 fished, or an outlet leading from one to another, a shapely easy 

 rowing boat is hidden where it can be found when required. 

 The boats are used also for deer-hunting in the fall of the 

 year, and are generally hauled to such places on sleds during 

 the previous winter. 



Your guide rows you over miles of dark water wooded 

 to its very brink ; he will tell you there is no fishing there, 

 though if you are content to troll, you may take a straggler 

 now and then. After a while he will stop at some bend of 

 the river or by a high rock, to you as unlikely a looking 

 place as any you have passed over, and tell you to get ready 

 and go to work. Then if you get your flies over the fish in 

 almost any way, so you do not make too much of a stir or go 

 too close, you have a fellow of a pound and a half at the first 

 cast, and as he goes sailing around, another of a pound may 

 take a fancy to your other fly. Take it coolly, and perhaps 

 you may have two or three dozen from twelve to sixteen 

 inches long before you move. If you ask your guide why 

 the fish should be there, and not in the water you have passed 

 over, he will likely point out a little spring branch which 

 steals its way into the river through the rank grass or water- 

 lilies ; the fish collect there because the water is cooler, and 

 you may catch the whole school on a favorable day, and in a 



