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shall wear the finished appearance of European lands, and every 
verdant field be closely cropped by lawn-mowers and guarded 
by hedges, and every purling stream which meanders through 
it has its water-bailiff, we shall still have speckled trout from 
which the radiant spots have faded, and tasteless fish, to catch 
at a dollar a pound (as we already have on Long Island), and 
all the appurtenances and appointments of a genuine English 
trouting privilege and a genuine English ‘outing.’ 
“In those future days, not long hence to come, some ven- 
erable piscator, in whose memory still lingers the joy of fishing, 
the brawling stream which tumbled over the rocks in the tangled 
wildwood, and moistened the arbutus and the bunchberries 
Fie. 238.—Small Mouth Black Bass Micropterus dolomieu Lacépede. 
which garnished its banks, will totter forth to the velvet edge 
of some peacefully flowing stream, and having seated himself 
on a convenient point in a revolving easy-chair, placed there 
by his careful attendant, cast right and left for the semblance 
of sport long dead. 
“Hosts of liver-fed fish rush to the signal for their early 
morning meal, and from the center of the boil which follows 
the fall of the handfuls thrown in my piscator of the ancient 
days will hook a two-pound trout, and play him hither and yon, 
from surface to bottom, without disturbing the pampered gour- 
mands which are gorging themselves upon the disgusting viands ; 
and when he has leisurely brought him to land at last, and the 
gillie has scooped him with his landing-net, he will feel in his 
capacious pocket for his last trade dollar, and giving his friend 
the tip, shuffle back to his house, and lay aside his rod forever.”’ 
