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Day after day in early spring, as has 

 been mentioned in the chapter on Tem- 

 perature, the sport was disappointing; and 

 that excited the thirst for knowledge. 

 How many trout were in the loch ? 

 Were a large proportion of them very 

 big? Did they all, like fish in a river, 

 lie with their heads in one direction ? or 

 did some of them look one way, some 

 another, some another, and some another 



stm? 



Yes, my host said : the trout in the 

 loch were very plentiful, and many of 

 them were very big. As to how they 

 lay, he was not sure ; but his impression 

 was that in a breeze they always kept 

 head - to - the - wind. These things, he 

 added, I could easily find out for myself. 

 All I had to do was to go up the hill at 

 noon some calm day when the sky was 

 clear, and look down upon the loch 

 through a powerful telescope. I should 

 then have a wondrous spectacle. Wher- 

 ever I looked I should see the trout, 

 closer to one another than grouse in a 



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