black bass and tarpon, as the successor of Izaak Walton fills his basket 

 with gudgeon and chub. Says Myron W. Reed, a veteran angler: 

 " This is the last generation of trout fishers. The children will not be able 

 to find any. Already there are well-trodden paths by every stream in 

 Maine, in New York, and in Michigan. I know of but one river in North 

 America by the side of which you will find no paper collar or other 

 evidence of civilization. It is the Nameless River. Not that trout will 



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cease to be. They will be hatched by machinery and raised in ponds, 

 and fattened on chopped liver and grow flabby and lose their spots. 

 The trout of the restaurant will not cease to be. He is no more like the 

 trout of the wild river than the fat and songless reed bird is like the bobo- 



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