XII 
THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
A Wonderful Trout and a Truthful 
Fisherman. 
Here is the best fish story we have 
heard in a long, long time. It is all the 
more interesting because it refers not 
only to a wonderful trout but is a true 
story. 
Fishermen in and about Stamford 
have known for a long time that the 
genial printer of our magazine, Mr. R. 
H. Cunningham, has not only built up 
a big printing business but that when 
he takes a vacation he catches un- 
usually large trout, as shown in the 
accompanying illustration. 
With his family he was spending a 
vacation in the wilds of Canada. One 
afternoon he started out as usual with 
OUR PRINTER AND II1S GIGANTIC TROUT. 
a slender fishing rod and a dainty line, 
little dreaming what a monster trout, 
some four feet (more or less!) in 
length, he would bring home. It seems 
incredible that one lone printer could 
ever have landed that whale of a trout 
and on his return could elicit such as- 
tonishing applause from the members 
of his family. But it is easy to get trout 
and to have fun with one’s family if one 
knows how to perform such feats. 
It appears that like the hero of a fairy 
story our printer wandered away and 
away and away, but he was not lost, 
because he could not be when one 
place is as good as another. But sud- 
denly it occurred to him that a sense of 
newness was borne in upon him, and 
that he had never before seen those 
places and things. But who cares? A 
beautiful lake spread its broad waters 
in his presence, and he prepared to land 
the record fish. 
He did it. Probably not for many 
ages has such a trout been brought out 
of those waters. It was so big that he 
called a native Indian to help him for 
he had wandered into the Indian Re- 
serve and Big Chief Mightygetto hap- 
pened along at the opportune time. Big 
Chief, as the name implies, can get as 
mighty a fish as was ever caught, and 
he knows how to sell it when he gets a 
good customer. It so happened that 
our printer had not only plenty of bait 
with him but a few dollars. He ap- 
plied the dollars to landing out of the 
bag the huge trout that Mightygetto 
exploited with no little pride and long- 
ing for a good price. 
Until they read this article in The 
Guide to Nature members of his family 
and other admiring friends have not 
known how our printer landed that 
gigantic trout. He did it — he could not 
tell a lie — with the present little pur- 
chasing power of the dollars of Amer- 
ica, but things are different up in Can- 
ada when it comes to matters of trout 
and Mightygetto, Big Chief Indian. 
With hoops of steel doth Nature hold 
Her lovers leal and true; 
But to the most of those who pass, 
The ties are cobwebs in the grass, — 
Her followers are too few. 
— Emma Peirce. 
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