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to say, "I don't much care whether you escape me or not." 
I however gave him plenty of time and then landed him. If 
I had been too quick with the first, I was too slow with this, 
for the hook had quite disappeared, so that a knife was 
necessary to disengage it, and my prize was so much dis- 
figured as to spoil it for a specimen. It was now nearly 
dark, and without another cast I hastened home, where I 
found my party busily engaged discussing a comfortable 
dinner. Senator H. suspended his gastronomie occupation 
and carefully examined my prize, and then deliberately 
surveyed the captor, and at last profoundly remarked, 
"this should be considered no exception to the rule of this 
valley that the trout will not bite a white man's hook. The 
fish should be pardoned, for the mistake was most natural." 
And then the whole party, with a spirit only known in a 
jovial excursion party determined to make the most of every 
incident, struck up "so say we all of us." I forgave the 
ladies at least, for nearly all had excellent voices and were 
always ready to use them on the least provocation; but I yet 
owe the senator one. 7 

THE ESQUIMAUX DOG. 
BY H. M. BANNISTER. 
THE study of the domestic animals of a barbarous nation 
or tribe is chiefly interesting as throwing some additional 
light upon their physical and intellectual status, and is there- 
fore a fit adjunct to the study of their ethnological and 
historical relations. When, however, the species are, az it 
were, unique in this capacity, or when through domestica- 
tion any very remarkable variation from the usual type ap- 
_ pears to have been produced, they then become of more 
(gener interest. Under this latter class we may place thé 


