While this was being done, Smith and Spalding adjusted their rods, eager to make up in catching trout what they failed to achieve in the matter of venison.

A proud man was Smith, as he lifted that fish from the boat and handed it over to the cook to be dressed for breakfast, and though we had seen the whole performance from our tents, yet he gave us in glowing and graphic detail the history of his taking that ten-pound trout.

He told them they must revel in the delights of the scene, and should tremble with the wild rapture of drawing from the rushing waters the bounding trout.

I remembered the circumstance of hooking a noble trout at the place alleged, and as the affair has been settled, I'll tell you how it was.

* * * * * 'Tregarva,' said Lancelot, as they were landing the next trout, 'where will that Crawy go, when he dies?' 'God knows, sir,' said Tregarva.

But before we cooked our trout, we must, according to sage Kitchener's advice, catch our trout.

I will have a confused summer, for I have as yet no home that I can dwell in; but I hope by-and-by to have some fine fun there with you, fishing in Saint Mary's Loch and the Yarrow, eating bull-trout, singing songs, and drinking whisky.

I got him on to land, my friends ran about in exstacy, and I think I never saw a finer trout than he proved to bereal Eden.

I have more than once stated, that the trout of these lakes and rivers, in the warm season, congregate where the cold streams enter; and if the sportsman will search out the little brooks, no matter how small, and cast his fly across where their waters enter the lake or river, he will be sure to find trout in any of the hot summer months.

They brought a trout, the large lake trout, and were, as-usual, very friendly.

Fyfe looked up at her and held aloft a dozen trout strung by the gills on a stick, gleaming in the sun.

"But anyway I did have bully good luck pulling out fat trout, boys," he told them.

"Now is the time, While yet the dark-brown water aids the guile, To tempt the trout.

" "I'll wager you're missing some first-class trout, though.

No; I always say so; but still you never saw a person kill even a trout with a perfectly "Champagne" face of "gentleness and simplicity," though, often, no doubt, with considerable "acuteness."

There is a handsome rustic inn here, where every Sunday afternoon a band plays in the portico, while hundreds of people are scattered around in the cool shadow of the trees, or feeding the splendid trout in the basin formed by the little stream.

He can put on as many shapes as the devil that set him on work, is one that fishes in muddy understandings, and will tickle a trout in his own element till he has him in his clutches, and after in his dish or the market.

CONKLIN, EARL W. Tying American trout lures.

"I've always claimed," said Robert, as he passed a beautifully broiled trout to Tayoga and another to the hunter, "that I can cook fish better than either of you.

The same may be said of most of the large English rivers containing large trouts, and abounding in May-flysuch as the Test and the Kennett, the one running by Stockbridge, the other by Hungerford.

The larger pools are lined with flags and reeds, and contain numbers of small fish resembling trout, similar to those found in the Lyons and Gascoyne Rivers.

One may learn much, it is true, of the wonders of nature in the dead time of the year by watching the great trout on the spawn beds as they pile up the gravel day by day, and store up beautiful, transparent ova, of which but a ten-thousandth part will live to replenish the stock for future years.

Nor is it difficult to drive the trout into the trap; they rush down helter-skelter, and, failing to see any net, they soon become hopelessly entangled in its meshes.

"First, you must know, that in all the wild life of the mountains there is no creature so strongin proportion to its size and weight, I meanas the trout that lives in the mountain streams.

Some years ago, at Farningham, (a village through which a noble trout-stream takes its course), stood a flour-mill, the proprietor of which informed my father, that he had often observed an enormous trout in the stream, near the mill-head, and that he would endeavour to catch it, in order to ascertain its real dimensions, as he was very desirous to have a picture done from it.