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pound, the Eden used to yield baskets as 

 good as those which are common in 

 Hampshire. 



These remarks, it will be understood, 

 are impartial. They are intended, not to 

 depreciate the South of England streams, 

 but to make it clear that streams else- 

 where are not sufficiently valued. While 

 trout-fishing within easy reach of London 

 costs much, trout-fishing in many other 

 places costs nothing or very little, and 

 therefore has never been esteemed as it 

 should be. Practically every county in the 

 Kingdom will ere long become as attractive 

 as Hampshire if anglers generally maintain 

 their revived interest in the manage- 

 ment of streams. It is clear that the first 

 measure of reform must be the imposition 

 of a rule that the taking of immature 

 trout shall be an offence disqualifying 

 the person guilty from exercise of the 

 privilege. Besides being no more than 

 the owners of fisheries are entitled to 

 stipulate, this would be a self-denying 

 ordinance easily borne. It would mean 



