Prairie And Forest: a Description of the Game of North America, With Personal Adventures in Their Pursuit
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Description, particularly if you enter into de- tail, is always longer than action. My handsome imitation — of what ? for a similar living fly I never saw — was a foot or two above the desired eddy, when a splash, a flourish of a broad dark tail, answered by my quick, nervous hand giv- ing an electric strike, fastened me to a splendid fish. As man and animals choose different methods of assault or de- fense, so this salmon selected a different course to free him- self. The hook had scarcely bee...n in him when four times he sprang with determined energy from his watery home, each spring causing me, in courtesy, to lower the point of my weapon, as an inferior would salute a senior officer; but this steeple-chase escapade had not the desired effect, and the salmon, comprehending this, altered his plan of combat, and settled down deep in the pellucid river, although far from conquered. An occasion of this kind is a trying ordeal, and often as dangerous to the tackle as any strata- gem that is put in practice; in fact, I have thought that it is pursued for the purpose of rubbing their snouts on the rocks or gravel, as frequently I have found, after killing a *A common Ameiicanism, originating from loaded bees always flying straight to their home.
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