MARCH 67 



ordinary river in a lowland region of the 

 United Kingdom. Any ordinary river 

 would, if it were given fair play, become 

 as good as the Test or the Tay. This 

 is said from more than abstract reason- 

 ing. In almost every county there is at 

 least one stream that within the memory 

 of men still living was as good as either 

 of the rivers of which we have been 

 speaking. The institution of a rule deter- 

 mining the weight of "takeable" trout 

 would quickly restore the injured rivers 

 to their natural state. Incredulity as to 

 this will be felt only by those who either 

 have travelled but little throughout the 

 Kingdom or have travelled without being 

 observant. For example, the Eden, in 

 Fife, is so much like the Test that an 

 angler dropped from an aeroplane on one 

 of them, and not being told which, might 

 easily mistake it for the other. The 

 essential similarity is just as striking 

 as the similarity of the general aspects. 

 Though its abundant trout are now not 

 better on the average than five to the 



