Fishes have keen sight, fair hearing powers, little taste, acute smell, and very slight feeling or sensitiveness to pain. Make the rod of hickory or ash, and 12 feet long. Dressed" lines are waxed to make them waterproof. "Gut," from silkworm, is used above the hook. Shot are placed a foot above hook. Pepper will keep moths

from the tackle.

Round Sneck and Pennell are the best hooks. A clearing-ring is used to slip down the line and pull to clear the hook. The plummet is used to find the depth. Clean the worms in damp moss for several days.

Bait: worms, beetles, flies, minnows (for trout and perch), boiled wheat, fresh bread worked with clean hands and a soaked loaf for ground bait.

Fishing for Trout

Trout are best in June. Fish up stream in the mountains and keep your shadow away. Use worms after a rain and on a bright day. Use flies until the end of June and again in September. Minnows are fine. Cast above and let the fly float over a fall. Trout notice resemblance in color only.

Fishing for Carp

Fish before 7 A. M. in summer. The worm is the best of all baits. Let a foot of line lie on the bottom. Wait until the line moves steadily away before striking. Fish and bait at three or four places at once. On hot days, when at the surface, carp will not bite.

Fishing for Perch

Worms and minnows held midway in the water prove very attractive to perch.

Fishing for Dace

Bread mixed with cotton to keep it on the hook is good, but worms are best. Lower and raise the hook.

JANUARY 23, 1896

"A Tramp Across the Continent," by Charles F. Lummis, is the longest walk for pure pleasure on record. He made 3507 miles in 143 days, stopping often to investigate. He was alone, except for Shadow, a greyhound, which accompanied him for 1500 miles. Leaving Cincinnati, Ohio, September, 1884, he arrived at Los Angeles, California, February 1, 1885.

Aged 26; wore knickerbocker suit, flannel shirt, low, light, Curtis & Wheeler shoes. If you intend to walk regularly, wear light shoes and toughen your feet. Ship your baggage and walk "light." A bicycle is nothing compared to it. Take in your pockets writing material, fishing tackle, matches, revolver; a strong hunting-knife with 8 inch blade at your belt; and money. Don't nurse your blisters. Just walk! His longest day was 79 miles, covered in 21 hours. A rabbit never survives a scratch. The Rocky Mountain trout are not beautiful like ours. He caught them with grasshoppers.

Pike's Peak, 14,147 feet elevation, is the highest inhabited place. He found a curious pine with good nuts in its cones. The horns of the mountain sheep protect him in falling; the head being heaviest, he falls on that. No eyes "shine" in utter darkness. The Rocky Mountain cat is very large, but cowardly. Water and not land counts in the Southwest. The only turquoise mine on the continent is at "Mount" Chalchnitt.

Bore holes in a board and fill them with lard and strychnine, then coat the surface. The animal licks and licks and dies. Skin an animal through the mouth to get a whole skin. The Pueblos had small doors for protection, not because they were small men. The cliff-dwellers were only Pueblo Indians, such as one sees today. The greatest abyss on earth is the Grand Canyon; more than a mile deep and many miles wide. Hunters' rule: No water before noon and keep a smooth quartz pebble under the tongue for the salivary glands. Southern California late in January is full of flowers, birds, butterflies, and oranges.

JANUARY 26, 1896

"Camp and Jungle," by Gordon Cuming, who was in India as an officer in 1847, is simply a bare, monotonous chronicle of killing and of very little interest to a scientist. The guinea-worm, which gets into one's legs and feet, is mentioned and described by him, and this seems to be the source or the stream of what notes I already have on the subject.

MARCH 8, 1896

Finished "Lucile" tonight. Alfred and Matilda, Eugene de Luvois and Lucile, and young Vargrave and Constance. Lucile is the heroine in shaping all the others; Luvois the hero in conquering himself. Remember Eugene!

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CHAPTER XIII

IN WHICH THE GHOST APPEARS

MARCH 15, 1896

BISHOP AND MRS. HARGROVE are with us today. Speaking of bishops recalls a story of Bishop Early, related by one who knew him.

Bishop Early had the reputation of being a little brusque with his younger preachers at times. After the noon service one Saturday at a camp meeting, he called one of them to him and told him he had to preach that night. "But," said the young preacher in dismay, "I have no sermons with me and the time is so short." "It makes no difference," replied the Bishop. "You've got to preach and that's the end of it."

The young man ate a little dinner and started out for a walk to collect his thoughts. The Bishop's tent happened to be open as he passed by and there on the table he saw a neat bundle of manuscript, which proved very interesting on closer inspection. No one saw anything of him until dark; he spent the afternoon far off in the woods.