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embraces all the Whitefish — large and small — and of which 

 this little fish is a species, are not predatory ; they are peace- 

 able dwellers in the deeps of the lakes, except in the month 

 of November, when they come into the rapids to spawn. 

 Great numbers of them are no doubt devoured in the lakes 

 by the large Lake Trout. 



Job. Why did you not take a tent and camp out, instead 

 of sleeping under-roof, after leaving Martins ? 



Nes. As Walter was lame it was more convenient to sleep 

 on beds, and unless these are buggy, as they frequently are 

 in the houses of the settlers, I prefer sleeping in-doors. It is 

 always necessary to camp out, when you wish to enjoy all 

 the advantages of a favorite hunting-station, and then it is 

 well to be provided with a mosquito-net if you go before 

 August ; after that time you are not annoyed with black flies, 

 and there are then but few mosquitos. 



Joe. So you think camping out is not - so much a matter 

 of comfort as of sentiment, as you call it ! 



Nes. It is like angling — with some persons a mere matter 

 of fancy. Washington Irving, in one of his sketches, describes 

 a fishing party, which included himself; these gentlemen 

 thought they were in love with angling, from reading Isaac 

 Walton, forgetting that like " reading and writing," as Dog- 

 berry says, it "comes by nature." They provided themselves 

 with Trout-rods, reels, artificial flies, &c., and started. After 

 poking through the bushes and floundering along a rough 

 little mountain stream all day, and damaging their fine tackle 

 without catching any fish, and having "satisfied the senti- 

 ment," they met with a country lad, his trousers rolled up, 

 an alder-pole with its rough horsehair line in one hand, and 

 in the other a handsome string of Trout. 



Joe. "Some men are born great" — there are natural 



