OUR LAKE 



water brings a never-failing sense of exhilaration and 

 youth. It typifies the joy of living. 



And there are more prosaic reasons for taking pleas- 

 ure in our small bit of water. The delight of fish- 

 ing does not consist entirely of sitting for hours mo- 

 tionless in a small boat or even in catching a 

 long string of the scaly beauties; the main pleasure 

 of this sport to an average person comes after the fish 

 have passed through the hands of the cook! Perch 

 and pickerel abound, the flesh of the latter being par- 

 ticularly firm and sweet, caught in such deep clear 

 water. Black bass although not common are fairly 

 plentiful, and four or five will well repav a fisher- 

 man for his hours of waiting. Occasionally one has 

 been caught weighing as much as four pounds, but 

 the average fish is not above two pounds. 



Our lake seems to be used more than many others 

 for transportation; small steam yachts, launches, 

 Hankscraft, and motor boats are darting back and 

 forth the livelong day. The city visitor, heated, dusty, 

 and depressed, alights from the train on a summer 



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