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have turned threatened defeat into a certain vic- 

 tory, simply because I know the location of a 

 cold spring. Sometimes the spring will be 

 located a few feet back from the stream, dis- 

 charging underground; under those circum- 

 stances none but an observing angler will locate 

 it; but if it is large enough to shelter fish the 

 one who discovers it will have a few moments' 

 royal sport. Always, just below those springs, 

 in the main stream, trout will be found. 



Only last summer I discovered where a little 

 spring discharged from between two rocks. 

 There was not over eight inches of water beneath 

 the rock, and yet I never failed to hook or take 

 a trout from that little pool. Really I should 

 not call it a pool; rather, simply say "hole." I 

 honestly think that I took twenty fish from the 

 spot during the season. A rather peculiar thing 

 was that with one exception they were all brook 

 trout; that, too, in a stream where nine out of 

 ten fish were rainbow. Where did those fonti- 

 nalis come from? How did they discover that 

 little rift in the rocks? Twice I got a fish going 

 up, and a second one coming down. Naturally 

 I got so that I looked for a fish. On the last 

 day of the season, I visited the stream with a 

 friend, and when we came to the spot I told him 



