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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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ion to those sea trout, and I picked out enoughnice ones for supper in a very short time. When ourdriver gazed upon them his face wore a thoughtful ex-pression, but he made no comment. After we and our horses had lunched, we startedagain on our journey, and at about five oclock our desti-nation, the village of Northeast Marofaree, came in sisfht.And what a lovely view it was as we stopped on thebrow of the hill. The quiet little village with its trimfarm houses and its little church situated in the lovelyriver intervale, in the midst of well-tilled farms, and thewhole surrounded by mountains which stretched away inranges as far as the eye could reach. Our stopping place was to be the house of a Mr.James J. Ross.* I am particular to give his full name,for of the thirty-eight or thirty-nine families in this sec-tion living up and down the river, thirty-three of themare named Ross, and as he keeps one of the few houses * Post office and telegraph address, Northeast Margaree, Cape Breton.
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272 With Fly-Rod and Camera. that are fit to stop at, or in which tourists and fisher-men are taken, it is important that those who contem-plate visiting- that region shall know whom to address inorder to secure board and rooms. If he cannot take inthe new comer there are other houses near by that will,best among which is that kept by the village postmis-tress ; but as Ross owns the teams and knows all thebest pools in the country, and is at all times availableas driver, guide and general utility man, his house ismuch the best to stop at, It was a small, unpretentious structure situated inthe midst of luxuriant farms. How he and his very goodother half managed to pack away in it all the boardersthat they had, has always been a mystery to me. Hehas now, however, an addition built to his old house thatis capable of holding comfortably all the guests that arelikely to offer. Here the angler has all the river and brook fish-ing the most enthusiastic could desire. Immediately backof Rosss

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