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parts of the lakes are their haunts. The best bait for taking 

 them is the shiner, although they are not very particular as to 

 feed, and can be captured with almost any kind of small fish that 

 populate the brooks that run into the lakes. Although not so 

 valuable as an article of diet or sport, still they should be pre- 

 served from certain and inevitable extinction by a protective law 

 during their spawning season. They have the misfortune to 

 spawn in the month of October; a pleasant time for active 

 out-door exercise, and for the favorite practice with many of 

 the foolish inhabitants near the lakes, of spearing this fish when 

 they go into shallow water to spawn. It is said that legis- 

 lative enactments against this wholesale murder would be 

 useless. It might be so ; but were our angling friends on the 

 lakes to take the subject in hand, have proper laws passed, 

 and see that they were put in execution against every offender, 

 this member of the finny family might he preserved as long as 

 waters run and fish swim. 



