NATURE AND SPORT IN BRITAIN 



in superb condition, and their freshness added yet a 

 finer flavour to their perfection. Sea-trout a day or 

 two old, or kept for some days upon ice, as those 

 must be that are bought in London shops, are not 

 for a moment comparable with a fish fresh run from 

 the sea and cooked the very evening of the afternoon 

 on which it was killed. In this respect the town- 

 abiding gourmet, who knows not the joys of sport 

 and labour, is at a huge disadvantage. He, poor 

 soul, can never know the real, the superb excellence of 

 this, the most delicate and well-tasted fish in the world. 

 Well ! he toils not, neither does he spin— or shall we say 

 cast? Surely he is undeserving of a delicacy that 

 can be tasted only in perfection near to its native 

 waters. 



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