From Quebec they received thesalmon and the herring, trout from Malbaie and white fish from Three Rivers.
Paul insisted that Mr. Weston should accept one of his fine salmon to broil for their midday meal, and then Rebby exclaimed: "Where is Danna?
And perhaps we shall catch a salmon above the falls, and broil it over a fire for our dinner.
Would it not be fine if we could catch a salmon and have it all cooked when Father comes back?
Then when Father does bring the salmon we can start a blaze right away," she said.
We haven't any salmon spear, and it is quick and skilful work," she responded.
You can rest here while I look over the mill," he said, "and then I will see if I can spear a salmon for our dinner.
I will go after her," and he started off toward the mill, while Rebecca added wood to the fire, and Paul prepared the salmon to broil.
Peter Friberg also threw his heart to a squaw, and with her he barged along the shores making depredation on salmon and halibut, finally pinning his future to a happy point running into the bosom of the Sound, near Salmon Bay.
The first Scandinavian who touched Salmon Bay, half a mile below Ballard, was probably Peter Friberg.
Herring and salmonthrong the water in rich abundance.
A reconnoissance of Salmon Bay hit his liking, but shortly after settled on 160 acres of land at Cedarhome, then called Burn.
Here is an excellent Salmon Fishery—a good shore for Bathing—and a safe Harbour for Vessels under 120 Tons burthen.
At the present day the pollution of rivers by coal-mining and other impurities has in some cases banished the salmon entirely, in others greatly reduced their numbers.
Defendant's plea, that he was merely investigating the scientific question of whether salmon yawn in their sleep, was not accepted.
A Welshman was fined fifteen pounds last week for fishing for salmon with a lamp.
Blinni are spread with soured cream, and smoked salmon or caviare is usually served with them.
In June the salmon arrive in schools, led each by a solemn pioneer, who knows his own special river; and then the fisher-folk are busy.
With careful prevision, my boatman had, in the floods of November and December, secured a plentiful supply of minnows, to be held in readiness till wanted in my fishings for salmon in the ensuing February and March.
All went well for the first few days of the salmon fishing; the minnows were deemed admirable for the purpose, and the supply ample for our needs; but this good fortune was not to last.
The writer says that "for several years it has been my happy fortune to fish the lovely Tweed for salmon and trout.
The salmon in the spring run up numerously, and the trout seek the cool recesses of the forests, while the rapids, the many islands and the charming woodlands are all attractive.
Evarts, who was a native of Boston, has his summer home Runnymede near Windsor, and at Cornish, nearby, Chief Justice Salmon P.
He hauled off and slammed a kick at a salmonwhich had tripped him.
He drove in his twelve-cylinder car to a point near the upstream tip of Memloose Island, whereon the Flathead salmon dance was to be held.
He swung wildly at the salmon and was completely submerged.
If de salmon fisk been running like dis tree day more Aye cleans oop sax t'ousand doller.
Another leaping salmonslapped the Wildcat with his tail.
Part of the gang headed northward to the salmon country; the rest of them blazed a trail to the southwest, where the sand fleas live on artichokes.
Any time you wanting a salmon fisk I give you one free.
He retrieved Mr. Skooglund from his environment of flopping salmon and tied the line under the arms of the inert man.
Staggering in from half a dozen paths came as many painted warriors, each bearing on his back a salmon nearly as long as its red-skinned carrier.
Feet first they dropped him upon the slithering mass of salmonfive feet below.
Mr. 'Coon let him go for a minute and then gave a hard pull and commenced to call out that he had him this time and that he'd show Mr. Crow now about only getting fish to the top of the water and having canned salmon for dinner.
He told them that he had some nice canned salmon in the cupboard that he could catch 'most any time, and that if they really wanted fish for dinner he s'posed he might as well open it.
Footnote 4: In this river the young sportsmen of the family had speared two hundred salmon in a single night.
The pioneers in this business here were two brothers, Salmon W.
It was bought for a song almost, when we consider the immense amount of money made for the government by the seal fisheries, the cod and salmon industries, and the opening of the gold fields.
Nearly half of the entire salmon pack of Alaska comes from Kadiak Island, most of the fish coming from the Karluk River.
It's around on the other side of the island in Shelikoff Strait, and is famous for its salmon canneries.
Birds sang, flowers bloomed, and berries gleamed scarlet in the sun, and there were salmon jumping in the blue water.
These caught and dried the salmon for the winter, and nothing is better to eat than dried salmon dipped in seal oil.
Beside a salmonstream there dwelt people rich in slaves.
Tyee Klake said salmon used to come up this river in shoal sixteen miles long, and now Boston men take them all.
A fresh-caught salmon broiled on arbutus-sticks over the fire was an admirable specimen of Irish fare.
Two peasants were sauntering home by the side of a river, when they spied a large salmon with his head hidden under the roots of an old tree, and his tail lying out into the stream.
Excellent salmon are caught here: the manner of catching them is strange; they are hunted by small dogs trained to the sport, who drag them out of the mud into which they occasionally creep.
A man who knew not the salmon in his native state, or ordering salmon in France, would get the idea that the salmon was bowlegged and that the breast had been sold to some one else, leaving only the hind quarters for him.
Salmon as served in Paris wears a different aspect from the one commonly worn by it when it appears upon the table here.
Before starting they caught and smoked as many salmon as they could carry, as the fishermen of the coast were in the habit of exchanging fish for sheep with their inland neighbours.
When they reached the net they found two fine salmon caught there, and carrying these ashore they split one and placed it above the fire.
The net was then removed, and in half an hour they were sitting down to a breakfast of grilled salmon and hot oatmeal cakes, which Ronald thought the most delicious repast he had ever tasted.
The wise men of our coast have said that the girl-child who will some day bear children of her own will also bring abundance of salmon at her birth; but the boy-child brings to you but himself.
But it was many thousands of years ago that a great Tyee had two daughters that grew to womanhood at the same springtime, when the first great run of salmon thronged the rivers, and the ollallie bushes were heavy with blossoms.
Let the salmon go,' shouted the people, 'but give us a future Great Tyee.
They were placed there long after the first creation, when the Sagalie Tyee moulded the mountains, and patterned the mighty rivers where the salmon run, because of His love for His Indian children, and His wisdom for their necessities.
Of all places for patience, commend me to Norway, where they wheel you in a perambulator by the side of a salmon river," he said.
She asked questions as to how the salmon got up these rivers, and announced her intention of trying to catch one when next she went to Scotland.
When everything was ready, and the water in the pot was getting hot, he popped him in, and waited till he thought the salmon was nearly boiled.
So the salmon swam close under the island, and when he was touching it the fox seized him in his claws and drew him out of the water, and put him on a spit, while he kindled a fire to cook him by.