An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . L1TI:RAKV work and TRA\liL. 47 the author of High Latitudes, at Fred Cumberlands banquet at the RossinHouse in Toronto. Then Dr. James H. Richardson, who was present, prepared formyself and wife a special trip to the Upper Ottawa country for a few days fishingin the mountain lakes about Des Joachim, and I have his letter before me, datedToronto, July 12, 1875. You see, readers, that my portfolio and pigeon holes arecrammed with uncalendared talcs to print. With changing seasons I was wont toc
An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . L1TI:RAKV work and TRA\liL. 47 the author of High Latitudes, at Fred Cumberlands banquet at the RossinHouse in Toronto. Then Dr. James H. Richardson, who was present, prepared formyself and wife a special trip to the Upper Ottawa country for a few days fishingin the mountain lakes about Des Joachim, and I have his letter before me, datedToronto, July 12, 1875. You see, readers, that my portfolio and pigeon holes arecrammed with uncalendared talcs to print. With changing seasons I was wont tochange my trips from state to state and latitude to longitude. All this time mystaff was serving as recording angels—William C. Harris, Barnett Philips, Wm. , G. M. Taylor and Horace Smith, besides Reynolds and Tileston was killed by a wall falling on him and young Webb, while theWestminster dog show was going on. It was a sad accident. My office desk keptme fully eight months. Four months chiefly engaged me annually at the Soittli. w. •.^w;^-:. § f , ^m #» f .. h 1 w^. MR. FAYETTE S. GILES,Secretary dooming Ciruvc Iark -Association. MR. H. H. THO-MPSOX,Angler and Angling Writer. ] went to Menchan, Rigolet and Ponchartrain with C. G. Ballejo, the best ofsouthern bass anglers. At Port Aransas, Texas, which swarms with ponies,ducks and tarpon, my business man, Wm. C. Harris, used to take Perie with himto paint fish he caught for his forthcoming illuminated fish book. He died somefour years ago at 74. ihe sporting ground was quiet when I dragged a trailingspoon or squid; but nowadays, when the government has taken hold on thepremises for special uses, the boats which start for the fishing ground string outin a dozen trailers, as they have done for half a century at Alexandria Bay, whereI caught my heavy muscalonge among the St. Lawrence Islands while housed atGrossman House. There are even better fish around the North Carolina soundsand inlets—much b
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