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the angler should bear in mind that his sport 

 to be thoroughly appreciated and relished 

 must be followed in a reserved and solitary 

 fashion. A man should be his own best friend 

 by the trout stream. The discipline of a spell 

 of silence is good for most of us, and there 

 are voices to listen to in the fields and woods 

 by the brookside in March for those who 

 choose to hearken to them. 



CHAPTER II. 



TROUT FISHING. 



WHEN the capture of trout is for the first time 

 in the season rendered permissive by the 

 weather, but impossible to the angler from 

 claims or cares of business, there are few sights 

 more distracting to the fisherman than the 

 brave show of speckled beauties set out upon 

 the marble slabs of the great dealers in the 

 food in which St. Peter traded. Your sea-fish 

 is a gaping and unsightly object. The cod 

 looks as though he had in life been startled at 

 some horrible wonder of the deep, and his 



