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gems in the sunbeams, whilst the bright and beautiful 

 trout is watching them from below; to hear the twitter- 

 ing of the water-birds, who, alarmed at your approach, 

 rapidly hide themselves beneath the flowers and leaves 

 of the water-lily; and, as the season advances, to find 

 all these objects changed for others of the same kind, 

 but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout 

 contend as it were for the May fly, and till in pursuing 

 your amusement in the calm and balmy evening you 

 are serenaded by the songs of the cheerful thrush, 

 performing the offices of paternal love in thickets 

 ornamented with the rose and woodbine.' 1 



The other forms of fly-fishing for trout, the pursuit 

 of larger specimens of the same species in larger waters, 

 the lakes and ponds and rivers all equally inviting 

 by their gentle requirements and the "beautiful 

 scenery of nature" deserve special treatment, be- 

 cause, as in fly-fishing for salmon (salmo salar), the 

 very top notch of all forms of angling, the play, the 

 player, the scenes, and the accessories are sufficiently 

 different to confound the reader I am mainly endeav- 

 oring to amuse with these particular lines. 



Small stream fly-fishing for brook trout belongs in a 

 class just between fly-fishing for the brook trout of 

 broader waters, the lakes and ponds, and fly-fishing 

 for salmon in the lordly rivers of Maine and Canada. 



The brook trout is angled for in the spring and 

 summer, principally with the artificial fly, and by the 

 chivalric Angler only with the artificial fly, though 

 many greedy fishermen of trifling experience and 

 wholly deprived of the true spirit of angling in that 

 they fish for the fish alone and judge their day and 

 play solely by the size of their catch contrive to 

 convince us that the live lure is equally honorable, 



