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while, and I did want to cast my flies into that one particular 
pool. I would not ask him for it, but I took my canoe and an- 
chored it quite a little distance above him, but I did not anchor 
it with a stone. I anchored it with a bag of rock salt, and as 
soon as the salt began to dissolve I made my cast around my 
canoe, and the fish all left the pool and followed the salt up; so 
I got the best of that one particular fish hog that I was fighting, 
and it showed me clearly that fish love salt. Another thing they 
love is sugar, and both of those things are good for a trout. When 
a trout does not rise well to the fly, if vou are whipping a pool 
(this I am afraid is talking the sportsman, still it might give a 
hint as to the feeding, etc.), you take vaseline that you have 
mixed sugar with, and smear your fly with it, and it will leave 
a trail on the water which will often attract a big fish. He will 
follow up the sweet place and take the fly, as he thinks it is a 
sugar plum. We all know a trout will run into salt water for 
food. I believe that the salvelinus runs down out of his fresh 
water bogs into the sea and remains there because he gets more 
food, and returns every year to his home. He soon gets accli- 
matized to the brackish water with a certain amount of salt in it. 
We are apt to forget the essential thing, it seems to me, in feed- 
ing fish, as we do in feeding human beings. I have always 
claimed (and pardon me for talking medicine just a moment) 
that we made our mistakes as physicians in this world too often 
—very much too often—by doing one thing or the other as far 
as diet is concerned. We concentrate the diet list down to mo- 
notony or we push our poor patients into some devilish theory 
which eliminates lots of good food that they ought to be taking. 
More patients have been killed in diabetes alone by putting them 
on a rigid diet list, than by giving them plenty to eat and drink. 
My patients get better under a broader diet list. So we choke 
down our fishes, never thinking what they want and need; we 
give them a monotony of food, and that monotony in itself, I 
believe, brings about deleterious changes both as far as their 
flavor and taste go, and as far as diseases go. 
Now we have left out one thing that is necessary to diges- 
tion. All fish have pepsin enough, all fish have good strong gas- 
tric juices, strong enough to digest the living animal. Take two 
frogs for instance, poke the leg of one frog into the other chap’s 
