IL. 
TROUT. 
Or all fresh-water fishes the brown brook-trout 
is the one best loved by the angler. Salmon, 
trout, and grayling, are the aristocrats of the waters, 
and constitute the game-fishes of Britain. The 
rivers and streams which they haunt lead us to 
the finest and wildest scenery—for only the pure 
sparkling waters are congenial to them. Every 
one loves running water, and there is a strange 
fascination about it difficult to define. Men direct 
their roads by the waterways, and for reasons far 
other than those of trade and commerce. Only 
the angler fully knows what these reasons are, and 
he it is who sees a hundred sights and hears a 
hundred sounds which are hidden from the 
traveller on the dusty highway. Flogging the 
trout-streams in spring, is surely the most fasci- 
nating pastime in which man may indulge, and 
truly blessed is he who has the opportunity. The 
trout-fisher cannot but be a minute philosopher— 
“He must, he is, he cannot but be wise.” This is 
