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fishing for trout is, jf^ar excellence^ the sport for 

 all true anglers, and in tlie proper season it will 

 be prosecuted by the Oquossocs with vigor and 

 no doubt with great success. 



TROUT PACKING. 



A great many trout are i^acked in birch bark, 

 ice and saw-dust, and taken away to families and 

 friends. Many boxes have been brought to New 

 York this season, the fish arriving in excellent 

 condition. One lot caught by the writer, in- 

 cluding four trout, weighing 23 i^ounds — one of 

 them an eight i^ounder — after arriving in New 

 York, were re-packed and sent to Dutchess 

 County, N. Y., where there are but few x^eoi^le, 

 even of the oldest inlia])itants, who had ever 

 seen a brook trout weighing over three pounds. 



Three boxes of trout, caught by the writer also, 

 were sent to New York to his brother, Mr. Geo. 

 M. Alter ton, who took great pleasure in distri- 

 buting them among friends, all of whom testify 

 that the fish were most delicious and had a 

 remarkably fresh flavor, an exceedingly rare 

 quality in brook trout as usually served in New 

 York City, and a ])roof that Maine Guides 

 know how to i)ack trout in such a manner that 



