Jan. 26, 1907.] 
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brown trout is a great sticker and will, I believe, 
do well in waters that are not cold enough for 
our native brook trout. They have splendid fish¬ 
ing in New Zealand for brown trout and our 
rainbows, all from the importation of eyed ova. 
No member of the salmon - family was native to 
these islands, and the astonishing results attained 
in about twenty years show what can be done 
in barren waters by the exercise of patience and 
perseverance. Of course the first requisite is an 
adequate supply of natural food for the fish. 
The supply must be large if w T e expect to have 
big trout. 
In mid winter, when the cold is intense and 
the ground- is covered with snow, the anglers 
begin to think and talk about fishing. Let two 
or three be gathered together and one will hear 
some very interesting stories. I heard a good 
many such during the holidays. One fisherman 
of the rough and readv sort was relating a won¬ 
derful tale of how he hooked, played and lost 
a monster trout. All other baits failing, he had 
used a young while mouse, and the la'st words 
I heard were, “O! I tell you, there is nothing- 
like mice. Have a box with cotton in.it to keep 
them warm and comfy and just hook them 
through the skin on the back.” Artificial mice 
can be bought in the shops, and -1 once carried 
one to Maine with me, intending to experiment 
with it, but I forgot to try it. It would not have 
been fly-fishing, anyway, and that is the sport 
which really grasps and holds us until the very 
last day of our lives. The subject is a very fas¬ 
cinating one and next to the actual fishing we 
love to think, talk and write about 'it. 
Sullivan County. N. Y. THEODORE GORDON. 
CAPTURING WILD ANIMALS IN 
FJNMARK. 
In olden times great herds of wild rein 
traversed the mountains and the woodlands of 
Finmark; bears were of common occurrence, and 
gluttons, wolves, foxes, and otters were numer¬ 
ous. The methods by which the natives in those 
days, long before the introduction of firearms, 
compassed the destruction of these wild animals 
always seemed to me to possess special interest, 
and by camp-fires innumerable throughout many 
seasons I have talked with the Lapps upon the 
subject. Followdng is the result of these con¬ 
versations, held on the banks of lonely streams 
and lakes, by birchwood fires, usually in an at¬ 
mosphere composed principally of mosquitoes, 
when the sun rode high in the heavens, or when 
at midnight it cast its level rays over .the gray 
and desolate tundras. 
The wild reindeer is referred to in all the 
stories and legends of the Lapps, and was by 
far the most important game animal in Fin- 
marken; as recently as sixty years ago it existed 
in large numbers through the province, and in 
1890 there was said to be a residuum, variously 
estimated at from 4 to 700, which frequented 
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kimo and Kvenangen converge. Since then, how¬ 
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year, and by inter-breeding with the tame herds; 
and it may be stated without exaggeration that 
the term “wild,” as applied to those that now 
exist, is a misnomer, and that few, if any, of 
the original stock of wild reindeer remain. That 
this result should have been arrjved at is hardly 
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