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fore instructed your guides, though 
you stand or sit, you will find the canoe 
slowly moving away to the farthest 
distance of the pool, but always with 
the line projecting down into the 
water as if the salmon were running 
away from you. That is the secret 
of the battle, for that is holding the 
Hy in the salmon’s mouth and giv- 
ing him the freedom of the river for 
his first rush, which will be up the 
river. Then and not till then, let the 
RECREATION. 
line ooze through your fingers until the 
slack is gone and you hear the reel. 
Then all the chances against you have 
disappeared and all the hazards of the 
battle are evened. 
I do especially believe in fighting the 
salmon from the shore when you are 
fishing in big holes. Have your guides 
assist you in getting ashore and place 
the canoe at the lower end of the hole, 
so as to be ready for you to follow the 
salmon if it start to rush down stream. 

A CORKING 
GOOD 
AMATEUR PHCTO BY R. C. W. LETT. 
SLORY, 
Winner of 31st Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 
Made with a Premo Camera, 
Pleasant Old Gentleman—Have you lived 
here all your life, my little man? 
Arthur (aged 6)—Not yet.—Lippincott’s 
Magazine. 
