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stream, the brook-trout. In addition to his beauty 

 and palatableness, there is a dash and go about his 

 method which strongly appeals to those who like 

 rapid action in their sport and who does not? 

 Furthermore, the typical trout water is in itself a 

 most beautiful thing. Be the region plain or pictur- 

 esque, the trout stream surely travels the most attrac- 

 tive part of it. Follow its musical bickering down a 

 valley and you will be led through one of Nature's 

 picture galleries, with choice bits arranged in marvel- 

 ous profusion upon either side. Glorious greenery, 

 lichened rock, grim cliff, echoing vault, thunder- 

 voiced fall, bubble-spangled ripple and mystic, velvet- 

 shadowed pool follow in endless succession. And 

 with it all the silver song of merry waters, perhaps 

 chording true at shadowtime with the contralto of 

 the thrushes. And so you lose yourself in the en- 

 chanted cavern of green. 



' There is nothing evil to be found in all our hun- 

 dreds of miles of trout waters. Only the celestial 

 pavement itself is cleaner than the pure, sweet water, 

 forever washing its bed and bounds and forever sing- 

 ing o'er its wholesome task. A trout stream is a 

 good place for most folks to be. And we have an 

 abundance of streams for, broadly speaking, a 

 rock country is a trout country. To remove the 

 trout country from this continent would be to render 

 it unrecognizable. There would remain prairies, 

 marshlands, the regions of sluggish streams and 



