“T lost him,” Bill admitted, looking 
into the glowing coals. 
“Yeah?” I encouraged him. 
Then Bill got his stride and explain- 
ed. “I went straight up to the foot of 
the rapids and dropped the spoon on 
this side; then I cut right across 
through the tail of the rapids to the 
eddy on the other side. The water there 
was spattered with foam from the rap- 
ids like when you take a bath. 
“T hadn’t half the line out when the 
spoon came out of the tail of the rap- 
ids over into the black water of the 
eddy—and he hit it. No yank—just 
easy—just took it and walked off with 
it. First I thought I had hold of a 
half sunk log that was swinging in the 
current, but then he turned and started 
upstream—easy like—and I dragging 
back till I thought the line would snap. 
It slowed him a bit and turned him off 
toward my side. Then he woke up to 
the fact that he had been tagged and 
began to get sore. 
Bill paused, gazing into the fire as 
though seeing there the half hour see- 
saw fight that had kept him from sup- 
per. “Had him right up to the boat 
three times,” he continued, “but as soon 
as my hand touched him he steamed off 
like a torpedo and the line burned 
through my hands and over the gun- 
’ale. Half an hour and as strong as 
ever, that bird could play around till 
daybreak and then be ready for a day’s 
work. 
“Then I remembered the hand axe in 
the bottom of the canoe behind me—the 
next time he came near I drew him 
carefully alongside. His broad black 
back awash in the ripples at the sur- 
face, fins as big as my hand gently fan- 
ning at his sides. I raised the axe 
slowly and slashed down at the back- 
bone just back of the head. He swerved 
and the axe cut his left forward fin— 
clean at his side. 
“I nearly went overboard. He dash- 
ed away like a maniac and swung in a 
crazy lopsided curve, circling the canoe 
in a widening curve. Then I put the 
brakes on the line and held him at forty 
yards. His left fin seemed to. throw 
him off his balance or he would have 
run clean out of the country. As it 
was he wabbled drunkenly and circled 
like a runaway merry-go-round—he 
doubled the foam on that cove. 
“Then I swore. The line scraped 
along the right gun’ale—caught on 
one of those brass brads that had 
worked loose. Blam! the brad came 
out and the line snapped—it all hap- 
pened in a minute—one minute I was 
running the show, and the next—” 
Bill sighed deeply and gazed intently 
into the flames licking at the back logs. 
A cool breeze came up from the river, 
swirling the fluffy grey ashes from the 
fire, fanned the coals to a glow which 
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