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OF A LARGEST TROUT 



THIS evening I took a trout of three and a half 

 pounds. I do not boast about it. It is nothing 

 super-troutish. But it is the largest brown trout 

 1 have ever had. It is so obviously the largest that 

 I have ever had, that I have not only weighed 

 it on my own spring, but also on the kitchen scales 

 which I know to be accurate. I tremble to think 

 of the weight to which, when I have time, I shall 

 calculate it on the basis of my own spring's verdict. 

 For my present purpose it is enough that it is my 

 largest trout. 



I am continually finding resemblances between 

 angling and life. This is not at all surprising. And 

 I take no credit to myself for it. One can (every- 

 body does) draw parallels between life and any 

 pursuit whatever. The only thing that limits one 

 in this direction is one's own speed and endurance 

 in the covering of paper with words or in dicta- 

 tion to the phonograph, supposing one to be an 

 author of sufficient eminence to employ one of those 



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