46 DAYS IN THE OPEN 



lated one of the fundamental rules of homiletics, 

 and made his porch too large for the house. There 

 remains a whole forenoon of fishing to be dis- 

 posed of and no time to tell about it. But if we 

 had unlimited space at our command, who could fit- 

 tingly describe even an hour of successful dalliance 

 with the festive trout? 



There were no more of the size of the political 

 boss and his friend; but how they came! Some- 

 thing over fifty trout preferred the Preacher to the 

 town-meeting, and when noon came that meeting 

 had adjourned sine die especially die. Some 

 were eaten for dinner, some were on the table at the 

 Doaktown hotel that night, George had what he 

 wanted, and twenty-one went back with the proud 

 Preacher to Fredericton the next morning. 



