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trout water and are responsible for their low 

 temperature. If the temperature of any water 

 is to be kept down there must be springs from 

 source to mouth, for no matter how cold water 

 may be when it first finds its way into the brook, 

 it will soon warm up when exposed to the at- 

 mosphere and summer sun. 



A number of years ago I lived near a "fished 

 out" stream, though I could manage to get half 

 a dozen fish or so from its upper reaches if I 

 fished faithfully for half a day; but, believe me, 

 it was real fishing. One day I was driving back 

 to town, following by preference what was called 

 "the river road" because it followed the windings 

 of the once-was trout brook, and I could dream 

 of days that I never knew. Imagine my sur- 

 prise when I drove slap into a farmer friend 

 with a willow stringer just loaded down with such 

 trout as I seldom took from the wilderness 

 streams I visited during vacation. To my anx- 

 ious and over-eager question as to where he 

 secured them, he replied with an indefinite jerk 

 of his head, "Oh, back there in the bresh." Of 

 course I knew there was no use in pressing ques- 

 tions farther; had I been in his place I would 

 have been no more communicative. That the 

 fish had recently been taken from the water I 



