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of their woodland delights will efface the cares and stress 

 of modern life, and refresh our jaded senses with the 

 delights of their never ending variety of delicate beauties. 

 These haunts of the trout will soothe our wearied eyes 

 with the delicate shades of their leafy surroundings and 

 with the exquisite pictures reflected in their limpid depths, 

 while our city-tainted nostrils will be cleansed by the 

 delicious fragrance of the country side. 



Hence it is that even the novice in fly fishing, vexed 

 as he may be by his want of success, is consoled and 

 comforted by the beauty surrounding him, and by the lessons 

 which he absorbs with every breath drawn from the scented 

 bosom of Mother Nature. 



There is no experience he will find more enjoyable 

 or pastime more delightful, than those associated with that 

 perfection of natural life which is to be found by an English 

 trout stream. 



Hardly any water-side exists which fails to interest 

 and attract the fisherman, and the pleasure of wandering by 

 the scented side of any brook or sylvan stream, and watching 

 the varying beauties and the wonder of its natural life, is 

 always enhanced by the infinite probabilities of Trout which 

 it suggests to the ardent angler, and the recollections 

 which it arouses of sunlit days and happy associations of 

 the past. 



