CHAPTER XV 



THE TROUT OF THE SPRINGS 



UNDOUBTEDLY every trout is a spring trout, 

 for the scientific name means "dwelling in 

 springs"; but I have a well defined notion of a 

 spring trout as differing sufficiently in habits 

 from his associates to deserve a chapter by him- 

 self. As one country boy put it to me some 

 years ago: "Them trout that live in that spring 

 up there are just like other trout, only more 

 so." That is an apt description, all right, "like 

 trout, only more so." By springs I do not mean 

 the occasional spring one sometimes finds near 

 the banks of trout streams, or welling from their 

 beds, but the large springs, producing 'steen bar- 

 rels of water per minute, the head of some creek 

 mayhap, both broad and deep, the real home of 

 trout. I am acquainted with several such 

 springs, though I do not bruit their whereabouts 

 abroad. (Would you? Do you?) 



In passing, I will also touch upon the fish 

 found in the immediate locality of the little 

 springs which marge every worth-while speckled 



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