342 TROUT AND ANGLING. 



which is the delight of the angler. His skill is 

 constantly liable to be put in requisition, and should 

 he succeed in securing a larger fish than ever he 

 had previously taken, his prime object is ac- 

 complished. He exults in the size, as an offset 

 to the numbers taken by the companion of his 

 sport. 



It has been correctly remarked, that they will 

 seize upon any small object in motion on the wa- 

 ter, for which reason, unless they happen to be 

 particularly dainty, it is unnecessary to be very 

 curious in the selection of a fly, — as a proof of 

 this, and at the same time of their well known vo- 

 racity, we remember to have taken a trout of about 

 a pound weight, when on disengaging the hook, 

 something like a string was observed to hang out 

 of its mouth. This proved to be the tail of a 

 mouse, which we drew from the throat of the fish 

 in a partly digested state. This circumstance 

 happened in the town of Tyngsborough, in a beau- 

 tiful stream, which take it for all in all, is as a 

 trout-brook, the very beau ideal of the angler's im- 

 agination, and is one fact, to which many others 

 might be added, that they are not over particular 

 in their food. 



We shall mention but one more, occurring 

 in the town of Sandwich, in the well known 

 " Monument River." On opening a fish of about 



