BROOK TROUT 



fly. When we reached Davidson's Eddy we were 

 sure to see some evidences of big trout. Davidson's 

 Eddy is probably the most celebrated pool on the 

 Beaverkill. The stream along there runs in a southerly 

 direction, and just at the eddy there is a high hill on 

 the western side that shades the pool most of the after- 

 noon. It is shallow along the eastern bank, and deep 

 under the wooded banks on the western side, the very 

 conditions that a fly-caster especially loves. It is thus 

 a particularly interesting pool for afternoon and even- 

 ing fishing. At Davidson's Eddy we would sit down 

 and watch for the trout to rise. Uncle Thee was more 

 or less given to sentimentalizing on these Sunday ram- 

 bles. One of his favorite hobbies was that time-worn 

 subject, "• things always adjust themselves," and many 

 were the stories he would tell to illustrate this, some of 

 them highly interesting and not a few quite dramatic. 

 Uncle Thee insisted that if you transgressed against 

 the laws of God and Nature you suffered, and if you 

 lived up to them you were repaid. " That every man 

 carried about in his own heart a heaven or a hell, the 

 one always ready to please and exalt him if he did right 

 and the other to depress and torment him if he did 

 wrong." Uncle Thee's religion was a very simple one ; 

 he had turned against all creeds, he said. " As I grow 

 older my faith and belief in an Almighty Being grows 

 stronger. I find that all the religion I need is the im- 

 plicit belief that my Woe for God grows deeper and 

 stronger, and that my faith and love shall remain stead- 

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