I Knew Then That Faye Had Told Him To Take
Care Of Me.
I went over to tell him that I was going for a fish, and then on down
to the beautiful river, whose waters are green and very much the color
of the Niagara River.
I cast the fly over on the water, and instantly
a large fish came up, took the fly, and went down again so easily and
gracefully that he scarcely made a ripple on the water until he felt
the pull of the line. That was when I forgot everything connected with
camp - Faye, horse thieves, and Indians! I had no reel, of course, and
getting the big fish out of the water was a problem, for I was
standing on a rather high and steep bank. It jumped and jerked in a
way that made me afraid I might be pulled down instead of my pulling
the fish up, so I began to draw him in, and then up, hand over hand,
not daring to breathe while he was suspended in the air. It called for
every bit of my strength, as the shiny thing was so heavy. But I got
him; and his length was just twice the width of my handkerchief - a
splendid salmon trout. I laid it back of a rock in the shade, and went
on down the stream, casting my one fly, and very soon I caught another
trout of precisely the same size as the first, and which I landed the
same way, too.
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