An Angler's Paradise. 



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monks in possessing such ponds, and in cultivating fish, when 

 there were plenty in the rivers and other waters not far off, as 

 there were in those days ? It was that they might have a certain 

 supply instead of an uncertain one, and that they might have 

 them just where they wanted them and as they wanted them, and 

 they had them. And so may we have our fish ponds well 

 stocked with magnificent trout as we want them, where we want 

 them, and when we want them. 



