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nishes excellent sport to anglers who desire to catch 

 bass, perch, salmon and other varieties of the finny 

 inhabitants. 



l}rook Trout, wliicli som<iimcH will eat Mice, are 

 abundant in many of tlic- cool mountain streams, and in 

 the winter season, when the numerous lakes in north- 

 eastern Pennsylvania are frozen over, fishing with the 

 "tip-up" for pickerel, through holes made in the ice, is 

 a favonte diversion with many persons. Certain spe- 

 cies of fish catch ducks and sometimes other feathered 

 [ininials, but the damage they do in this direction is not 

 very great. 



