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trout as it is caught be wrapped promptly in paper 

 good newspaper will do which excludes heated 

 air better than anything else. Then, at the close 

 of the day, unroll your spoil, and each trout 

 will be found bright and stiff, fit to set before 

 the daintiest lady in the land. This wrinkle will 

 prove of special service when you get that six- 

 pounder, which you intend, of course, to have 

 stuffed as a trophy. You will be able to send 

 it to the preserver without those blotches and 

 streaks of discolouration which, being indelible, 

 render hand-painting necessary. But for the love 

 of all that is gracious, do not leave scraps of news- 

 paper lying on the river bank ! for of all objects in 

 a summer landscape, none are more obscene than 

 these, and there are places where even the Athencewn 

 or the Church Times are an eyesore. 



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This is the month of all the year which Christo- 

 pher North, not without good reason, Loch Trout . 

 preferred above all others for trout- Fishing 

 fishing in Scottish lochs. Dry-fly adepts hesitate 

 to recognise the most successful lake-fisher as an 



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