"
"Well, which do you suppose was the largest years ago?"
"Can't say that neither, although that one yonder might have been, by
the looks o' the banks."
"Then let us start on that one. And if that fails us, we can then try
the others."
They skated to the stream in question and erected a pole in the middle
of the ice, upon which a second note was posted. Having gone to the
trouble of chopping a hole for the pole, John Barrow suggested they
might try their hand at fishing.
"Might as well stay here a while," he said. "If they are behind us, they
may catch up."
Dick was willing, and soon a line was baited and let down into the hole.
It was in the water only a few seconds when the guide felt a bite and
drew up a fine fish, weighing at least half a pound.
Dick was anxious to try it, and took the line from John Barrow's hands.
He was equally successful, and in a short while they had seven fish to
their credit, weighing from a quarter to three-quarters of a pound
apiece.
"I'm going to tie a fish to the top of the pole," said Dick.
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