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venison with a dish of speckled trout to do, not as 

 Mrs. GLASS suggests, " first catch and then cook," 

 but first catch, then critically examine, and then 

 eat " with what stomach you may." 



After a week's further rambling, with delightful 

 repetitions of pleasant days, charming scenery .and 

 abundant sport at Hitching' s pond, at Raquette 

 Falls, Cold river, Big Eock, Split Kock and other 

 places famous for the abundance and weight of 

 their fish we reluctantly turned our faces home- 

 ward. But not until we had had evidence of the 

 rapidity with which pickerel are multiplying in 

 these waters. As they rarely take a fly, I was dis- 

 gusted but once with a rise from one of them. 

 But those who trolled, particularly around the 

 Falls and in the vicinity of Cold river, were con- 

 stantly annoyed by them. And this annoyance 

 will increase every year (for no fish multiplies 

 more rapidly,) until trout fishing in the Kaquette 

 will cease to be the attractive amusement which it 

 has been these thirty years, and which it still is to 

 those who know how to fish. 



I have all my life heard of the monster fish 

 caught in the rivers of Maine, and although I have 

 angled in almost all the waters from Quebec to 

 Minnesota, I have yet to experience the pleasure 

 of landing a seven-pound trout. This pleasure I 



