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fair young lady trout of two or three pounds' weight, 

 when I wouldn't wet the soles of my boots for the 

 bare chance of seeing her grandmother, though I 

 should dearly like to "take a rise" out of the old 

 lady, too, if she happened to come in my way. 



The angler wiU. be rather a gainer than a loser by 

 a proper management of the waters, and the sport- 

 ing and commercial interests iu all fishing matters 

 are entirely identical. Their objects are — the lest fish, 

 the best sized fish, and the greatest number of them. 

 Given these three unknown quantities, what are the 

 relative proportions? How is this piscatorial xyz 

 to be determined 1 WiU any one help in trying to 

 work up the form of the equation ? What is that 

 xyztohe equal to ? Is it to be a plus quantity or 

 a minus quantity? I have worked hard for many 

 years to make a plus quantity of it, and hope to be 

 successful at last. If I am, I shall not have striven 

 in vain — I shall have done some little good for 

 my fellows ; for surely there is many a hungry 

 belly and many an empty pouch going, that might 

 be filled if that same equation were only properly 

 worked out ! 



The charr might certainly be much more widely 

 spread in our lakes than it is, if judiciously intro- 

 duced. 



