" If a pricked trout is chased into another pool, he will, I be- 

 lieve, soon again take the artificial fly." — Sir Humphry Davy. 



" It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure 

 in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman 

 does this." — W. C. Prime. 



" We persevered, notwithstanding the storm, and got our hun- 

 dred trout, all alive and active, into Lake Salubria. They did 

 not, however, multiply as we hoped they would. For years one 

 would hear occasionally of a great trout being caught in the lake, 

 till at last they were all gone. They lacked the ripples and the 

 running water. They lived to be old, and then died without 

 progeny, ' making no sign.' " — S. H. Hammond. 



" The trout is such a light food, that eight of them, some ten 

 inches long, will not make a supper for a hearty man, leading this 

 wilderness life." — "Porte Crayon.'''' 



" I believe I am sincere in saying that I enjoy seeing another 

 man throw a fly, if he is a good and graceful sportsman, quite as 

 much as doing it myself." — W. C. Prime. 



"I was content with my one glimpse, by twilight, at the for- 

 est's great and solemn heart ; and having once, alone, and in such 

 an hour, touched it with my own hand and listened to its throb, 

 I have felt the awe of that experience evermore." — A. Judd 

 Northrup. 



