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melt and run ; then down, to come in in long, big 

 circles, jumping, fighting, a splendid fellow that 

 made the boatman turn the boat again and again 

 to keep the angler facing the game. Now it is 

 at the quarter, coursing along, turning slightly 

 upward that it may present the surface of its 

 body to the angler and make the greatest pro- 

 test. Now it is alongside, the boatman drops 

 his oars, picks up the net, and up into the sun- 

 light comes the silver trout, a thing of beauty, 

 if not, a good substitute. 



Four or five trout are picked up in this way, 

 and at noon the boatman puts in to a little beach 

 and soon there is broiled trout for dinner and 

 a stroll in the forest later, before the afternoon 

 fishing which is to be of the deep-water variety. 

 It is a delight to the angler in strolling through 

 the Tahoe forests, glancing from lake to moun- 

 tain, to feel that the government has cast its 

 protecting hand over it, and that the lake re- 

 gion is a forest reserve. The " woods " cannot 

 be burned, trees cannot be defaced, Nature is 

 respected, and the region consecrated to the peo- 

 ple of the world a sentiment John Muir gave 

 utterance to a few days ago when we were dis- 

 cussing Hetch-Hetchy. 



These forests belong to the people of the 

 world, not to you, or me, or any town or city, 

 and it is due mainly to John Muir and Gifford 

 Pinchot that the radiant forests of California 



