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safed to the well-to-do and high-born. They are 

 always comely to look upon, because ill-conditioned 

 fish drop readily back to the sea. Kelts are seldom 

 seen. There are comparatively few flies or gnats to 

 torment one, and the variety of food and landscape 

 gives spice to life. The fishing, too, is practically 

 free, and in going to the Province the course is short 

 and direct. The angler avoids the taxing tedium of 

 long canoe voyages, or the protracted journey by 

 sea, en route, as on the lower St. Lawrence rivers. 

 There are direct steamers now from New York and 

 Boston to St. John, Halifax, Digby and Yarmouth, 

 and when once the destination is reached the angler 

 can readily choose some farmhouse or hostelry for 

 his headquarters, and then tramp leisurely from 

 brook to river, fishing as he goes, possessing his soul 

 in patience, and succeeding in one stream where he 

 fails in another; or he may send on his luggage in 

 advance, and fish up to it, day by day. This is the 

 economical method. Or he can hire a vehicle by the 

 week, or by the trip, or job. There is only one seri- 

 ous drawback. He cannot dispose of his trout. 

 Perhaps he can bribe his landlady to cook what he 



