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body- can catcii " suckers", in a still pond, hut a trout must be tickled »' 

 with dainty bait. Yet true aportsrnen do not, for this reason, prefer 

 angling with' worms about the margiii of stagnant poolsj when they 

 can whip the gold-spangled beauties out of swift streams with a 

 little sldli and preparation, and we trust. that in fiiture no true lovgr 

 of trees will plant ''suckers" to torment his future days and sight-,; 

 when he may, with a little more pains, have the satisfaction ;of en- 

 joying the , ^hade of ihe freshest and comeliest of- American forest' 

 trees. , :. 



