. Rod and gun. ce feas-ible, it was just_^the tail-end of Mayand onlv a were ;t the THE LITTLE LAKE OF Till-: BIG TROTT 102* hotel. \Vc sal in Mr. McrrelFs pri-vate office and went over they been taking the bait?was my first query: apparently theyhad been biting pretty well, and Iconsequently put it up to Charleywhere we would cruise. As alreadystated, Lemeure was tlic lake chosen,because it lay off the regular route,and because Charley had often toldme of the big trout that homed in itsdepths. So Lemeure it was: the Pro-fessor stayed out on the verandahand discussed wi
. Rod and gun. ce feas-ible, it was just_^the tail-end of Mayand onlv a were ;t the THE LITTLE LAKE OF Till-: BIG TROTT 102* hotel. \Vc sal in Mr. McrrelFs pri-vate office and went over they been taking the bait?was my first query: apparently theyhad been biting pretty well, and Iconsequently put it up to Charleywhere we would cruise. As alreadystated, Lemeure was tlic lake chosen,because it lay off the regular route,and because Charley had often toldme of the big trout that homed in itsdepths. So Lemeure it was: the Pro-fessor stayed out on the verandahand discussed with a kindred spiritthe merits of September Morn. Breakfast over, we were off for thenorth by 9 oclock. Charley occui)iedthe stern and me the bow; the Pro-fessor carefully curled his long legs upamidship and told Charles and my-self the proper method (from a scien-tific standpoint) of catching the largerfish. We reached Island lake in goodtime and crossed to the portage intothe Otter Slide lakes: a carrv here of. Charlie Took me to Nearby Lakelets where weDally saw Deer some 300 yards proved troublesometo the Professor. Finally we got ourfirst load over and Charley and I re-turned for the rest, leaving the Pro-fessor seated on a log admiring thescenery: thirty minutes later >ve re-turned with the stuff and oh howshocked I was to hear the languagethat was burning the atmosphere!The flies had, during our absence,made the Professors acquaintanceand apparently it was proving thor-oughly to their satisfaction if not tohis: he said he never thought of itwhen I suggested that he should !iavebuilt a smudge-fire: it sometimesseems that Science fails to suggest theright out-of-door move to eliminatethe rough spots encountered. Away we plugged to the upper endof the farther Otter Slide where wehad lunch at the Rangers Hut: an-other double portage and we were onthe Petewawa, which for miles twistsand turns, there being here good goingand there shallow, with pull-oversaround logs and bars
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