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rippling surface of our fair gem of a lake in the 

 grand setting of those majestic mountains ; ay, and 

 pleasant too when the salmon are sulky, is the 

 fishing for the beautiful white trout in the various 

 streams betw^een the lake and the tideway ; and 

 exciting indeed is the struggle when a white trout 

 with glittering scales, only a few hours from the 

 sea, is hooked on a small trout-fly and fine drawn 

 gut — for your sea- trout is the most active of fish, 

 and will £jive the angler a braver fight than a brown 

 trout of more than double his size, flinging himself 

 constantly high into the air, a silvery flash of light, 

 game to the very last, making rush after rush, and 

 spring after spring, when you think he should be 

 quite safe for the landing-net. 



Ay, and when the shades of evening are falling 

 over mountain and valley, river, lake, and bay, 

 when the smoke from the chimney of our inn, 

 rising from amongst the trees which surround it, 

 suggests busy doings at the huge peat-fire in the 

 kitchen, pleasant is the walk or drive back to that 

 snug hostelry, and jovial the dinner — with salmon 

 and trout fresh from lake and river, grouse not 

 quite so fresh from the mountain, and snipe from 

 the marsh. 



Genial and jolly, too, is the evening talk over 

 our glasses of punch, the recital of incidents of 



