against the bamboo, then came a leap 
again and again of all the color that 
God ever wove into a fish, and back of 
all the fairy lace of the rushing river. 
My first rainbow. I had only a sense 
of fighting something of dreams until 
it was landed in the net by a man who 
with one arm could hold a canoe against 
the river demon and smile while do¬ 
ing so. 
I looked at the torn and worn bit of 
steel and deer’s hair that Pete Vigeant 
had handed me the day before. I saw 
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Each evening they gathered at Pete 
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that had drifted in to cast the fly over 
the muttering millrace. Great rainbows 
were being taken out that season, for 
it was dry, unusually so, and the size 
of the rapids had never before in the 
memory of the oldest Indians been as 
it now was. Shrunken, they tell me, to 
the half of its usual width and depth. 
Pete’s place was the gathering of the 
clan. It was the rendezvous for the 
followers of the bamboo and the gut 
leader. Many a story was spun there 
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“Why don’t you tie your own, Pete, 
you’ve all the fixin’ here for the 
work?” 
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the time on his force and the pickling 
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He told Hough that he had never 
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“Well, come along with me and we’ll 
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get some material.” 
They did go down and Hough cut the 
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