JACK-O'-LANTERN 



safeguards and restrictions. Those who 

 are leaseholders of neighbouring lakes and 

 streams for fly-fishing might permit net- 

 ting under their guardians' inspection and 

 control, with limitations as to time, size 

 and quantity. Practical objections, per- 

 haps not easy to deal with, are quite ap- 

 parent, but, were they overcome, anglers 

 would enormously better the quality of 

 their fishing, while aiding a most useful 

 enterprise. 



Slipping down the long descent to the 

 river in easy fashion, we gave an hour to 

 the likely-looking pool at the crossing. A 

 stiffish rapid dances into and across it, with 

 eddies on both sides; here is no great 

 depth, there the slow-circling water is dark 

 and flecked with foam. No foot of it all, 

 where fins can hold against the current, is 

 untenanted. The members of this needy 

 community are driven to snatch at any- 

 thing and everything on the chance that it 

 will relieve a chronic hunger. This was 

 the very spot to let loose an ardent lad, and 

 give him once and for all his fill of 

 slaughter. A certain rise at every cast, 

 often several trout contending for the same 

 fly, and a fair number over the half pound 

 to bend his rod and teach him the music 

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