THE TROUT STREAM 31 



after several days' hard angling in a chalk or rocky 

 stream unrewarded by the smallest bit of sport, 

 and may dwell with gloom on the deterioration of 

 trout fishing in the south of England ; we should 

 be optimists when we think of the progress which 

 is being made in the science of pisciculture and of 

 the well-stocked streams of the future. 



