THE HABITS OF THE TROUT 



minnows on the shallows, the poise of expectant and 

 hungry yearlings, or the busy spawners on the gravel- 

 beds ; to be charmed by the kaleidoscopic color flashes 

 as the sun rays or shadows fall and shift upon and over 

 the rifts and pools ; to note the sedate and overhanging 

 alders, under which the lazy veterans of the reaches 

 listlessly rise to the dropping bugs ; to repose in a 

 moss-bedded nook of verdure and watch the curling 

 lips of tiny eddies, or the wild rush of mountain- 

 waters; to enjoy the placidity of hill-environed lakes 

 or to hear the innumerable and mysterious utterances 

 from out of the hollows, from the hill-sides, and from 

 the hurling waters and the depths of the forest. 



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