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make — and during most of the year, fish and deer 

 and moose ready to come almost at their call. 



This beautiful lake is thronged with salmon and 

 speckled trout. Talk about Pisico Lake and Lake 

 Pleasant, and other border waters, where fishing has 

 become a business. Come here, if you wish to see 

 the treasures the wilderness encloses. The most 

 beautiful and savory trout that ever swam are found 

 in such quantities that you can take them without 

 even a fly, or bait of any description. Look at that 



inlet — ^there sits my friend B n with a pole and 



line big enough to play a sturgeon with, and nothing 

 but a piece of white paper on his coarse hook. He is 

 skipping it, or as the fishermen call it, " skittering " 

 it over the water, and there rises a two pounder, 

 and there a three pounder, and a one pounder by his 

 side — ^heigh ho, a full dozen of them, with their 

 speckled, gleaming sides and wild eyes, are making 

 the water foam about it. The hungry, unsophisti- 

 cated fellows have never yet learned that there is such 

 a thing as a hook, and dart fiercely at every object 

 that tempts their appetite, without fear of being 

 caught. You can sit here of a fine dav, and with 

 bait take out these speckled trout till your arms 



