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operating on. The rest is considerably easier than 

 catching a Test trout with the dry fly. But there 

 are variations. Once I was sadly bothered for a 

 time. I caught fish after fish, and threw them care- 

 lessly into the snow which had drifted behind me. 

 Wearied of slaughter, I turned round to bag my 

 prey. When, lo ! de'il a trout was there ! Luckily, 

 after thinking serious things about my state of health, 

 I heard a light sputtering under the snow, and, in- 

 vestigating more closely, I found that my trout had 

 gone through the light covering and were lying in 

 a thin film of water between it and the ice, possibly 

 proceeding from the hole in which I was fishing. 



All of these small experiences by river and lake 

 lead me to fancy that t\\.e fontinalis of America, like 

 his cousin salvelinus of Europe, is more or less of a 

 migratory fish. He likes to amuse himself in the 

 shallower waters and streams during the summer, 

 and then retires to the quieter and deeper ones for 

 the rest of the year to recuperate. Of course, like 

 many of ourselves, it is not given to all of them to 

 retire to perfect recuperative positions, and so some 

 have to be contented with the second-ratedness of a 

 swirly hole, as against the profundity of Lake 

 Superior, — Margate against the Mediterranean ; and 

 so, in fact, it is not a fish likely to replace our friend 

 fario in every district. 



Eh, man, but you have kept us havering and 

 shivering long enough on your open-air ice. Let us 

 be back to Quebec, and have a bit of warm ice 



