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Show 78 FROM FORT BRIDGER characterizes the bite of the trout, and with a jerk as quick I threw the speckled beauty on the bank. It was an epoch in my life ! I had caught my first trout ! And I was as delighted as a little girl with her first doll on a Christmas morning. Subsequent to this event I have in dulged freely in the sport, and on one occasion I knew of fifty- four being caught in a few hours by one individual. The station at the mouth of the canon is kept by a Mor mon, and several of the same faith live in the vicinity. My first impressions of them for thrift and industry were favor able. I purchased vegetables of a " Saint," who is " the husband of one wife" ( not at least one, as they explain St. Paul's injunction to mean), or rather I purchased them of the wife who appeared to be the better man of the two ; and I would here add that this is the only instance I have ob served in my intercourse with Mormons where the woman was treated as if she had any rights whatever, or her judg ment and opinion respected in the least. But of the Mor mons more hereafter. Around the stage stations, everywhere from Atchison to Salt Lake City, large flocks of the common black birds were constantly collected ; but at the mouth of Echo Canon I saw for the first time those of the magpie species. They are larger than the common black bird in the States, with a larger tail, in which white feathers predominate, and parts of their wings are of the same. The white feathers looked whiter and the black blacker because of the association of the two. It is too pretty a bird for one of its habits, which are the same as the crow's. Ravens are very numerous in this country, also ; but the reader must not suppose that the ravens of the Rocky Mountain regions, and the crows that are such a nuisance to the farmers in Virginia, and elsewhere in the South, are the same bird. Of course they belong to the same family ; but the former are larger, have a broader and stouter bill, and are of a more glossy black, nor do they make quite such unmusical sounds, or so many of them, as the crows. The above, with a few turtle- doves, were the only things of |