With fly-rod and camera . in about two weeks there. Wethus not only avoided the black flies which abounded therein the sprini^ and summer months, but we got also, inaddition to the fishing, some very fine shooting, therebeing an abundance of feathered game all around thoselakes. On the occasion that I am about to describe, weleft Boston in one of the fine steamers of the Interna-tional Steamship Company. I had two friends along ascompanions, both of them visiting the Schoodics on thistrip for the first time. It is a most delightful trip to Eastport on one of these steamers, and wel
With fly-rod and camera . in about two weeks there. Wethus not only avoided the black flies which abounded therein the sprini^ and summer months, but we got also, inaddition to the fishing, some very fine shooting, therebeing an abundance of feathered game all around thoselakes. On the occasion that I am about to describe, weleft Boston in one of the fine steamers of the Interna-tional Steamship Company. I had two friends along ascompanions, both of them visiting the Schoodics on thistrip for the first time. It is a most delightful trip to Eastport on one of these steamers, and wellworth taking even for the trip alone. On this occasion we had a fine run to Portland,at which city we arrived at about four oclock \\\ the af-ternoon, and as we had a large amount of freight to un-load and another lot to take on, we did not leave untilabout sundown. Ihere Avas a piano on the boat, and one musicallyinclined young man thrummed some popular airs on it,a portion of the audience joining in the choruses. Their. Falls on a Tributary of the Cascapedl\ River, P. Q. 152 IVitJi Fly-Rod and Cam cm. voices were not always tuned to one harmonious key,and the piano was not of the best, still it was music, andmusic on the water is always acceptable, as I have provedon many occasions. Once, while making a W^estern trip,I found myself an a river steamer which was blessed, or,if you prefer, the contrary, with a calliope. No one onboard seemed to know how to play it, but when the cap-tain learned that I could play the piano, he insisted thatI should try the calliope. I went and tried! And suchan experience as I had! There was a keyboard corres-ponding to that on a piano, each key being connectedwith a valve, which when opened by pressure on the key,emitted a screech, approximating to some tone. Harmonyon the instrument was bad, for the tones and intervalswere far from perfect, but the air played sounded some-thingr like Avhat it should be. Well, I went at the calliope, and after
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