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contrary, it is a very serious and laborious, 

 humbugging proposition. The speckled trout 

 country is very sparingly inhabited and scantily 

 clad with a not very tame people ; who, however, 

 when you come up with them, will treat you 

 kindly as they become convinced that you are 

 not looking for their outfits. 



We have no char in Worth Carolina, at least, 

 I have never seen one here. It is a most beauti- 

 ful, red spotted fish of the salmon genus and 

 is shaped much like our mountain trout. It is 

 also wary and hard to come at ; indeed, it affects 

 tarns situated away up in the solitude of for- 

 est — bare mountains, where only the caw of 

 crow and scream of eagle make nature seem 

 to be alive, such as the tarns in the beautiful 

 lake district of England. 



The rainbow trout, introduced into our sap- 

 phire district from the Kocky Mountain coun- 

 try appears to closely resemble the char in 

 shape, marking, and perhaps habit, and I 

 should not wonder if it is the same fish. I 

 know that patience ceases to be an incentive to 

 cuss when one is fishing for char; because I 



