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a good lunch, for we shall be gone all day, and don't for- 

 get the lemons for this cold-water-man's drink. " 



A- we strolled along towards the boat, Thompson and 

 I, Thompson said, " I didn't want any of those boys to go 

 with me to-day. They are all fish-mad. They are 

 glorious fellows, but they have been bitten by trout, and 

 nothing satisfies them but killing trout again. Now, Hove 

 fishing dearly. There is no sport like it for me. But there 

 is a VMM deal in fishing besides catching fish, and that is 

 what I want to gH to day. I want to explore this lake, 

 to enjoy this scenery a little, as well as to fish. They 

 wouldn't he willing to do that, it would be just fish! fish! 

 fish! all day with them, and if a fellow ventured a little 

 sentiment, there 'd be no end of banter. But you are new 

 to the woods no trout has ever bitten you yet, although 

 your day is pretty sun- to come if you repeat this kind of a 

 trip a few times, and I have seen you looking off on the 

 lake and the mountains, in the morning and at sunset, in 

 such a sort of way. that. I have judged that you enjoyed 

 these thing* enough logo a fisliingon my plan. So, 1 have 

 asked you to go with me. " 



"Yes," said I, "this is all new and very delightful to 

 me. On this trip I mean to catch the forest if I don't catch 

 many trout, I can't be content to go away with only a dim 

 memory of what, when I stop to look at it and feel it, 

 impresses me more deeply than anything else in nature 

 ever did. " 



"Agrn'd, then," replied Thompson, "that for to-day, 

 we shall fish as la/.ily, and talk as sentimentally, and keep 



