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the head of fresh water game fishes. 

 Volumes have been written concern- 

 ing the brook trout, its haunts, habits 

 and scientific characteristics, so that 

 its history is an open book to those 

 who study the subject from the angle 

 of the printed page, but the hosts of 

 enthusiasts fond of trout fishing find 

 the lessons of the running brook, with 



Yellowstone Trout. 



the leaves overhead, more fascinating 

 than any instruction or description 

 given by even the most graphic writer. 

 The brook trout may be regarded, 

 on the score of gameness as well as in 

 relationship, as a small salmon, with 

 this difference in its favor, the beauti- 

 ful tints of red and gold and silver 

 make the speckled trout far superior 

 in appearance to the larger species in 

 the Canadian rivers, and fortunately 



