Facetious Anglers Pleased 



copy of the living fly is more or less 

 necessary to success. This is the case 

 at the pool and rapids at the middle 

 dam at the head of Rapid River, where 

 a large shoal of apparently educated 

 trout keep leaping and tumbling so 

 that fifty to one hundred speckled 

 beauties of from two to five pounds 

 weight are always in sight. But it 

 used to be said that they would not 

 take an artificial fly; so, schoolboy-like, 

 the guests at the camp sent every an- 

 gler on his arrival 'to try below the 

 dam,' as a sell. It pleased them to see 

 a fresh man's face glow at the first 

 sight of those sportive beauties, which 

 acted as if half in coquetry and half in 

 defiance of anglers. I felt thankful 

 when witnessing the self-denying hos- 

 pitality which prompted several an- 

 glers, who were entire strangers to me, 

 to cease angling opposite the camp for 



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