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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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es. These are always goodenough for me in the woods, if they are flanked witho-ood bread and butter and a good dipper of tea. Why is it that tea has such a relish on such oc-casions? Usually I am very abstemious of it, in facthardly ever using it, but in my outings it is quite dif-ferent, and coffee, which at home constitutes my regularbevera<J-e, loses its relish. And I have noticed time andao-ain that guides and canoemen also prefer tea to coffee,and it is astonishing how much they are dependent onthe cup that cheers but not inebriates. Indians andwhite guides are the same in this respect, and many atime has my canoeman, without a word from me, glancedup to the noonday sun, pulled silently ashore, and lightedthe fire for biling the tea kittle. A pint dipper ofstrong tea with a biscuit or two has, in a hurried journey,proved sufficient, if followed by the inevitable pipe; andthe paddle or setting pole was resumed with renewedvigor. Well, Frere, said I, as we arose from our bounti-
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128 WitJi Fly-Rod and Camera. fill repast, what shall it be, sta) here to-nio-ht or moveon up the river? It is hard to decide, he replied. We know thereare fish here, and dont know there are any above. Oh, plenty above, no trouble, exclaimed the guideswith one voice, evidently anxious to be moving-; like allguides I have ever met, they were not satisfied to remainlong in one place. We might, if that is the case, replied Frere, goon as far as the fifth pool, stop there to-night, and thenmove on to the upper pools to-morrow. What do yousay? he asked, turning to me. All right, I replied, we are sure to find sport insome of the pools, and even if we dont we have anabundance of food. Indeed ye have, and more, exclaimed Hiram, butI thought if we got up the stream to the farms in theupper settlement, we could send out to the hotel a lotof fish for your folks to eat. Well, boys, break camp, said I, and we will packand start. In a short time all our belongings were packed inthe canoe, and we w

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