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do their trading and receive their mail at Cresco, and 

 it is an easy matter to obtain excellent food and lodg- 

 ings for a dollar a day at one of the many farmhouses 

 dotting here and there the valleys, and a seat when 

 needful in one of the several private conveyances 

 running every day between the two villages. 



The open season for trout in Pennsylvania is from 

 April 1 5th until July I5th, and there appears to be no 

 particularly favored period during these three months, 

 for the trout here afford sport equally well at all 

 times, though they greatly vary in their tastes for the 

 fly. 



If the angler goes there in the early part of the 

 open season, when the weather is cold, he should 

 engage a room and take his meals at the farmhouse 

 selected; but if the trip is made in the early part of 

 June or any time after that, during the open season, 

 camp life may be enjoyed with great comfort. 



Two favorite waters within walking distance from 

 any of the farmhouses in Canadensis are Stony Run 

 and the Buckhill. The great Brodhead, a famous old 

 water in the days of Thaddeus Norris, and noted then 

 and now for its big trout, flows in the valley proper, 

 within a stone's throw of the farmhouse at which I 

 engaged quarters. Spruce Cabin Run, a mile distant, 

 is a charming stream, but the trout here are not very 

 large beyond the deep pools at the foot of Spruce Falls 

 and in the water flowing through Turner's fields and 

 woods above the falls. 



Any of these streams will afford plenty of sport, 

 but if one wishes to visit a still more wild, romantic, 

 and beautiful trout water, he has only to walk a little 

 farther or take a buckboard wagon and ride to the 

 mighty Bushkill, a stream that must not be confounded 



