BBOWN WATEES 



Killing trout easily, without exercise 

 of wits, is but a dull business. Soon you 

 grow to appreciate the fish that have 

 cost you something ; the brace of three- 

 pounders that came at the end of long 

 casting over untried waters; the great 

 fellow that was the sole reward of a two 

 days' paddle ; the coy monster for whom 

 you changed the fly seven times, rest- 

 ing him like a salmon betweenwhiles ; 

 the one well-shaped and vigorous fish 

 from the lake placed, or rather mis- 

 placed, by tradition in a fold of the hills, 

 which it took three days to find; the 

 dozen of feeding fish that you managed 

 to get a quick line over; yes, even the 

 immense unknown that followed in your 

 deliberate fly for thirty feet, with the 

 wave of a submarine above his nose, 

 turned slowly, majestically, and disap- 

 peared forever ! 



There is nothing novel in the observa- 

 tion that the ways of women are strange. 

 Timid-bold: hardy cowards: angels 



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