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the others I know they are not dangerously enthu- 

 siastic, especially over the more remote waters. 

 In fact, not a few of them actually fail to do full 

 justice to the regions they refer to. The pen of a 

 wizard of word-painting could not overdraw the 

 beauties of at least four-fifths of our trout waters, 

 which will, under ordinary conditions, yield all the 

 fish that clean sportsmanship can demand." 



Very true, Mr. Sandys and also true that good 

 sport, if not the most exciting, may be reached from 

 most of the humble homes of the land, within a rea- 

 sonable journey for the ubiquitous Ford, the motor- 

 cycle, bicycle, trolley-car, or even shanks' mare. 

 There are the Sullivan County and other Catskill 

 streams of New York, streams of the White Moun- 

 tain region in New Hampshire, streams in Vermont, 

 New Jersey, and in Massachusetts. We have seen a 

 dozen native trout creeled legitimately in August, 

 only three days before the close of the season, from 

 public water not fifteen miles out of New York City. 

 And almost any pond will yield either bass, pickerel, 

 or such very acceptable pan-fish as perch, rock-bass, 

 or " sunnies." 



With a similar charming felicity have many other 

 writers depicted the joys of angling. Of the numer- 

 ous pleasures that are closely connected with its pur- 

 suit " its accompaniments and variations, which 

 run along with the tune and weave an embroidery of 

 delight around it," to borrow a fragment of Dr. van 



