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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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ents it developedpresently that they needed fish; also thatthey had a surplus of butter of a morerecent period than the little dab we hadleft. They were willing to dicker—a cir-cumstance that filled us with an enthusi-asm which we restrained with difficulty.In fact, Del did not restrain his quiteenough. He promptly offered them allthe fish we had brought in for their extrapound of butter, when we could just aseasily have got it for half the number offish. Of course the fish did not seem espe-cially valuable to us, and we were willingenough to make a meal without them.Still, one can never tell what will happen,and something like six-dollars worth oftrout—reckoned by New York prices—seems an unnecessary sum to pay for apound of butter, even in the Nova Scotiawoods, though possibly trout will neverbe worth quite that much there. All the same, the price had advanced agood deal by next morning, for the windhad shifted to the northeast and it wasbleak and blustery. Everybody knows the
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^tiXr^^rfcS It was worth the dollar to watch the way in which he sought to wheedle and coax and fascinate those trout. i6o The Outing Magazine old rhyme about the winds and the fish—how, when the winds are north or east,the fish bite least/ and how, when thewinds are south and west, the fish bitebest. There isnt much poetry in theold rhyme, but its charged with sterlingtruth. Just why a northerly or easterlywind will take away a fishs appetite, Ithink has never been explained, or why asoutherly and westerly wind will start himout hunting for food. But its all as trueas Scripture. I have seen trout stop risingwith a shifting of the wind to the eastwardas suddenly as if they had been summonedto judgment; and 1 have seen them beginafter a cold spell almost before the windhad time to get settled in its new quarter.Of course it had been Dels idea thatwe could easily get trout enough forbreakfast. That was bad judgment—wecouldnt. We couldnt take them fromthe river, and we couldnt take t

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