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ness and vigor after being hook 'd or his exc^h^nce on the table, shnll 

 we wonder at the judgment, much loss dispute it, which, next to the 

 Salmon only, rates him the first of fresh-water fishes. The pursuit of 

 him leads us into the loveliest scenery of the land ; the season at 

 which we fish for him is the most delicious, those sweetest months of 

 spring — when they are not, as at present, the coldest and most odious 

 of the year — the very name and mention of which is redolent of the 

 breath of flowers, the violet, the cowslip, and the- celandine, which 

 plunge us into a paradise founded upon the rm-al imaginings of the 

 most exquisite of England's rural bards, until we are recalled from 

 our elysium by a piercing gale from the north-east, and perhaps a 

 pelting hail-storm, bidding us crush our wandei-ing fancies, and teach- 

 ing MS that spring-time is one of those pleasant things which occui-s 

 twice perhaps in a lifetime in the United States of America. 



The habits of the Trout have been already discussed so fully in the 

 earlier part of this article, as well as the nature of his food, that I 

 shall defer further mention of these topics, until I come, in the second 

 part of this volume, to the taking of him with the natural or artificial 

 bait, which is most intimately connected with the consideration of his 

 prey and his haunts, so that in that place these wUl be most suitably 

 discussed. 



\oTK TO Revised Edition. — For some farther particulars as to the size of the 

 Brook Trout, see Supplement. Art. Broi)k Trout, Salmo Fontirialis. 



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