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feeling for mere enjoyment, I should be tempted 

 to follow the example of yonder lone angler, 

 who has cast anchor, and who is fishing listlessly, 

 I presume, for perch. 



PISCATOK. Eegarding him, I may repeat the 

 words you said this morning, but in a different 

 sense, hand invideo, miror magis ! I should 

 be sorry for our angling to be a dreamy pursuit. 

 Eest assured, the more active it is, with exercise 

 for its object, and recreation, the better and 

 more healthful it is. The trouts are not in a 

 taking mood here. Let us away to the islands. 

 If anywhere, there we are most likely to do 

 better. We will trowl by the way with our 

 flies and with my artificial minnow. The dis- 

 tance we have to go is about four or five miles ; 

 nearly half the length of the lake, which is 

 reckoned ten, or by the boatmen, tempted 

 perhaps by their interests to make the most of 

 the distance, twelve. And I may add now, 

 in reply to your former inquiry, that where 

 widest it is about a mile, and where deepest 

 about forty fathoms. This depth, and the vast 

 body of water, commonly secures it from 

 freezing. During the many years I have known 

 the lake, I have only once seen it frozen entirely 

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