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magnet to attract sporting visitors trout fishing 

 has real value. Moreover, once a wanderer has 

 been to a Colony and likes it, though he may not 

 stay at the time, he may later on return and settle. 

 If good trout fishing is to be had, it is a pull. 

 The Old Country is overcrowded. Anyhow one 

 gets that impression in London nowadays when 

 trying to board an omnibus or strap-hanging in 

 an underground railway. They tell us, too, that 

 the man who can find a house (the kind he wants) 

 to let, in London, or a provincial town, is one of 

 the world's wonders. A vacant house in England 

 nowadays seems as welcome to house-seekers as 

 the biscuits were to those little trout at Tetworth, 

 and to produce rather similar manifestations of 

 eagerness ! The call of the colonies should 

 become all the clearer with the homeland in so 

 congested a state. 



Mr. Parker's loyal, cheerfully -rendered ser- 

 vices were officially recognized, but he probably 

 enjoys his best reward in the realization that he 

 has been the means of providing healthy, whole- 

 some sport for his fellows. He has earned and 

 won the gratitude of colonists and sportsmen. 

 A man who is a keen trout fisherman and who 

 runs a trout hatchery must be unselfish, because 

 after a time he surely finds the personal zest of 

 catching trout diminished. He must be inclined, 

 one would think, to remember the anxiety and 

 labour connected with rearing the fish, and so to 

 regard catching wild ones as in a measure an 

 undoing of his own work. 



