By far the best chapters are those treating of the ouananiche and its capture, as the author writes from ample experience.

I believed that he was the predestined lure for that ouananiche; but it was hard to persuade him to fulfill his destiny.

The ouananiche in the island pool were superb, astonishing, incredible.

Then I fell back on a theory of my own, to the effect that the ouananiche have an aversion to red, and prefer yellow and brown.