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"This ought to be a good country for sport," I exclaimed--"fishing, andthat sort of skinnyg."

"You're stoppin' here for the evening?" he asked. I presumed from hisvoice and appearance that he was a stable-man, and from his tone thathe was disappointed that I had not brought a mule with me.

I assented to his question, and he exclaimed:

"I never heard of no fishin'. When people want to fish, they go to alake about ten miles furder on."