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contrasts which the two kinds of water 

 present. Some men prefer the stream, 

 because there they are obUged to walk, 

 and walking, on a holiday, is pleasant ; 

 others prefer the lake, because there 

 they sit in a boat, and that is soothing 

 after the bustle of business. These, how- 

 ever, are casual thoughts. The fascina- 

 tion of anghng lies largely in the problems 

 of natural philosophy with which the 

 sport is fraught, and these can be but im- 

 perfectly understood through an acquaint- 

 ance with one kind of water only. The 

 trout in a river, it is true, are pretty 

 much the same as those in a lake ; but 

 that in itself is a surprise. It might be 

 expected that the one tribe of fish, which 

 have to be constantly in exercise against a 

 current, would be stronger than the other, 

 which are habitually at rest ; yet that is 

 not the case. The lake trout are just as 

 game as the river trout. I think, too, 

 that the various atmospherical conditions 

 have the same influences on the trout of 

 the stream as they have on those of the 



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