BLOOMING GROVE PARK. 



i^if T has been ascertained to an almost mathematical 

 nicety that it will cost the metropolitan angler one 

 dollar for every pound of trout he takes, no matter 

 where or under what circumstances he fishes. If 

 he go to trout preserves in the vicinity of the cities, he 

 will he charged a dollar per pound for all the fish he catches, 

 or several dollars per day for fish that he may, but does not 

 catch. Should he select the streams or ponds within one 

 hundred miles or so of town, he will find them depleted by 

 much fishing; and the expenses of his journey and contin- 

 gencies wiU bring the cost of the few fish he takes up to the 

 inevitable dollar per pound. Or should he prefer remote 

 localities where trout can not only be had for the catching, 

 but swarm in such abundance as absolutely to embarrass the 

 angler, the measure of his expenses will still be a dollar per 

 pound. At the same time, he Avill be unable to enjoy the 

 pleasure of bringing his fish home, or even of eating more 

 than a few of them on the spot. The same conditions are 

 relatively true of salmon, or any other description of genuine 

 game-animals or game-fish. If the angler hire a river in 

 Labrador or Canada, it is quite probable that he may catch 

 a thousand pounds of salmon in the course of a month's fish- 

 ing ; but the price of his lease and his expenses for traveling, 

 guides, boat, provisions, outfit, and et ceteras, to say nothing of 

 time consumed, will foot up a dollar per pound. Or, if he go 



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