TKOUT-FISHING IN HAMILTON COUNTY, N. Y. 



FIRST NOONING. 



[Scene, the shady bank of a Trout-Stream. — Time, after the Roast. — 

 Present : Norman, Walter, and Nestor.] 



Walter. Well, about fishing at Lake Pleasant and Louie 

 Lake ; how do you get there ? 



Nestor. The usual route is, or was, by way of Albany 

 and Amsterdam, a station some thirty miles beyond, on the 

 New York Central Kailroad, where you take a stage or private 

 conveyance to Northville, and there another for Lake Pleas- 

 ant. 



Brundage, a spry old fellow of seventy, used to drive us up 

 from Northville, and as we trotted merrily along the Sagan- 

 doga, and crept up the ascent of the table-land, whose forests 

 embosom the beautiful lake, and heard the waters of the 

 outlet dashing through the ravine below, in the dim twilight 

 or pale moonshine, the garrulous old man would entertain us 

 with stories about his son-in-law Partridge, or as he called 

 Mm " Patridge," who kept the tavern where we had dined on 

 wild-pigeon squabs, or tell us of the " Piseco Club," who went 

 up the week before, and that it took one wagon to carry the 

 anglers, and another to carry their meat and drink. Their 

 fishing, though, must have exceeded their feeding, for we have 

 it on record, that they caught in one week over eight hundred 

 pounds of Lake and Brook Trout. Our little club, the 

 "Houseless," were only occasional not annual visitors, and 

 fished the lakes and rivers north of Piseco Lake. 



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