FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



It might be well, in view of the rapid extinction 

 of trout going on all over the country, to lay down 

 a new rule that all true gentlemen sportsmen should 

 scorn to hook their fish in the mouth ; that the 

 really artistic and scientific way is to hook them 

 in the tail, and that no gentleman would take such 

 an unfair advantage as to take two chances (head 

 and tail) on the poor fish. 



But let us put on a little pinafore, made by 

 another writer in " Forest and Stream." 



" Salmo fontinalis is a roaring soul, 

 As free as the bird on high ; 

 His energetic tail should be ready to nail 

 The ar-ti-ii-cial fly. 



His tail should flop and his body curve, 

 And from this plan he should never, never swerve ; 

 His eye should flash, and his fins protrude. 

 And this should be his customary attitude." 



Be glad if, when you are fishing, some trout, 

 frenzied with hunger or desperate after repeated 

 failures, does not, with one mighty rush and slap, 

 shoot your fly into his throat with such force that 

 he swallows himself tail end first. Rather may 

 you have the experience of " Sancho Panza," of 

 Mifflinton, Pennsylvania, who went fishing on the 

 first of April, and penned this result to the same 

 breezy paper : 



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