. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . t of our party had the good fortuneto — rwbsshvm, although within easy rifle who could hit his first Moose before fairlyawake? The monster was as large as a Jerseycow, with great spreading antlers, but he moved assprightly as a grey-hound when he discovered hisproximity to our camp. It is a pleasure also to say that we remembergratefully the courtesies of Mr. Moffat, of Dal-housie, and the unceasing attentions of Mr. Mont-gomery, Collector of the Port, who made our daysstay in the town one of unalloyed pleasure. Bothgent
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . t of our party had the good fortuneto — rwbsshvm, although within easy rifle who could hit his first Moose before fairlyawake? The monster was as large as a Jerseycow, with great spreading antlers, but he moved assprightly as a grey-hound when he discovered hisproximity to our camp. It is a pleasure also to say that we remembergratefully the courtesies of Mr. Moffat, of Dal-housie, and the unceasing attentions of Mr. Mont-gomery, Collector of the Port, who made our daysstay in the town one of unalloyed pleasure. Bothgentlemen placed our party under lasting obliga-tions, and their kindness and hospitality will alwaysbe associated with the pleasant memories we shallever cherish of our first visit to these salmon waters. Second Yisit to the Cascapedia. CHAPTER XII. SOME BEMINISOENOES OF OLD FRIENDS. Did ever any one see the like ! What a heap of trumperyis here ; and since I find you an honest man, I will make noscruples in laying my treasures before you. — [Charles N taking down my store of ang-ling implements from their win-ters repose, I found them as Ihad left them, after a long siegeof service. They were as wel-come as the faces of old friends ;and the older the more was the identical sil-ver doctor with which I tookmy first salmon last year — dimand frayed from hard service, but more preciousfrom association than all its score of gaudy com-panions. What any fly would do, under any cir-cumstances, for any one, that fly did for in sunshine or cloud — whether in un-tried waters or where each ripple, rock and eddywere as familiar as household words — whether,when no breeze disturbed the silvery surface of 88 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. the river or when the storm howled all around me— always and in all places it was true to its sometimes have such friends, and becausesome such have been brought to mind by this tinymemento of forest life, I will
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