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even a suspicion, of this come to my 

 mind until early in the following Feb- 

 ruary. All anglers have a habit of 

 thinking over during the winter months 

 successes and defeats of the previous 

 season or seasons. Many times my 

 imagination had taken me back to this 

 pool, and sometimes I had exclaimed: 

 "Can it be possible that the other 

 anglers were right when they said 

 that there were no fish there? If so, 

 why should trout shun so beautiful a 

 pool?" 



One morning, months after, I hap- 

 pened to be on a train with Mr. La 

 Branche, who has spent many days on 

 the Willowemoc, and as always when 

 we meet, we began "talking fish." I 

 told him of the experience related 

 above, described the pool, drew a dia- 

 gram of it, learned that he was thor- 

 oughly familiar with every inch of this 



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