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food in these southern chalk streams. Their well-fed inhabitants, 

 very unlike the hungry trout in a mountain stream, are fastidious 

 about flies that are not served up to them, as it were, in the most 

 appetizing way, and that are not almost forced into their mouths. 

 The delicate reception of a fly by a chalk-stream fish is very 

 different from the mad plunge, half across the stream, of a hungry 

 mountain trout. 



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