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magnet to attract sporting visitors trout fishing 
has real value. Moreover, once a wanderer has 
been to a Colony and likes it, though he may not 
stay at the time, he may later on return and settle. 
If good trout fishing is to be had, it is a pull. 
The Old Country is overcrowded. Anyhow one 
gets that impression in London nowadays when 
trying to board an omnibus or strap-hanging in 
an underground railway. They tell us, too, that 
the man who can find a house (the kind he wants) 
to let, in London, or a provincial town, is one of 
the world’s wonders, A vacant house in England 
nowadays seems as welcome to house-seekers as 
the biscuits were to those little trout at Tetworth, 
and to produce rather similar manifestations of 
eagerness! The call of the colonies should 
become all the clearer with the homeland in so 
congested a state. 
Mr. Parker’s loyal, cheerfully-rendered ser- 
vices were officially recognized, but he probably 
enjoys his best reward in the realization that he 
has been the means of providing healthy, whole- 
some sport for his fellows. He has earned and 
won the gratitude of colonists and sportsmen. 
A man who is a keen trout fisherman and who 
runs a trout hatchery must be unselfish, because 
after a time he surely finds the personal zest of 
catching trout diminished. He must be inclined, 
one would think, to remember the anxiety and 
labour connected with rearing the fish, and so to 
regard catching wild ones as in a measure an 
undoing of his own work, 
