…as the dawn breaks, Strickland awakens from his drunken slumber, rubbing his blood shot eyes, he stumbles into focus, Lou's pool to his right, sparkling orange and yellow in the morning sun, a dimming camp fire in front of him, showing all the signs of the previous evening's orgy of food and booze "any salmon today?" he asks a wandering loon, "I-du-know…I-du-know" replied the loon...listening to the morning song of the silver canary, Strickland laughed to himself as he anxiously awaited to tell the others... 

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