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good sport, and many a happy summer even- 

 ing have their owner and I spent by them. 



The rainbow has a method all his own ; he 

 is the quickest grabber at a fly and the 

 strongest diver and jumper in my limited 

 experience. Living as he does in very still 

 waters, in these ponds one is obliged to use 

 fine tackle and small flies. Sometimes I have 

 known the air of a lovely calm evening rent 

 quivering and blue with the language at the 

 butt-end when " The brute has broken me." 

 Once the very waters seethed, lashed by the 

 point of a rod driven out of all self-control 

 for a moment in a frenzy of despair at losing 

 what is always the biggest fish ever hooked. 



It would be interesting, were it possible, to 

 have the aggregate weight of all one's lost 

 fish. The proverb " there are as good fish in 

 the sea as ever came out of it " should be 

 changed for fishers to " there are heavier fish 

 in the sea than ever came out of it." 



These trout are beautiful fish, scaling any- 

 thing from one to four pounds, deep in girth, 

 and shimmering like veritable rainbows. I 



