of Salmo fontinalis. They did not breed on the mountain top. They cannot ascend the stream. Where did they originate? When, and how did they manage to get there? I leave the questions to savans and naturalists. As for myself, I state the fact-still demonstrable-for the trout are yet there. But I take it to be one of the conundrums "no fellah can ever find out."

P. S.-A word as to bugs, lures, flies, etc. Now I have no criticism to offer as regards flies or lures. I saw a Gotham banker in 1880, making a cast on Third lake, with a leader that carried twelve flies. Why not? He enjoyed it; and he caught some trout. Even the guides laughed at him. I did not: he rode his hobby, and he rode it well. Fishing beside him, with a fivedollar rod, I caught two trout to his one. What did he care? He came out to enjoy himself after his own fashion, and he did it. Like myself, he only cared for the sport-the recreation and enough trout for supper. (I cannot cast twelve flies.)

Now my favorite lures-with forty years' experience -stand about thus. Tail fly, red hackle; second, brown hen; third, Romeyn. Or, tail fly, red ibis ; second, brown hackle; third, queen of the waters. Or, red hackle, queen, royal coachman. Sometimes trout will not rise to the fly. I respect their tastes. I use then -tail fly, an angle worm, with a bit of clear pork for the head, and a white miller for second. If this fails I

go to camp and sleep. grubs, but prefer the fly.

I am not above worms and

And I take but what I need

for present use. Can all brother anglers say the

same?

"It has so happened that all the public services that I have rendered in the world, in my day and generation, have been connected with the general government. I think I ought to make an exception. I was ten days a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and I turned my thoughts to the search of some good object in which I could be useful in that position; and after much reflection I introduced a bill which, with the consent of both houses of the Legislature, passed into a law, and is now a law of the State, which enacts that no man in the State shall catch trout in any manner than in the old way, with an ordinary hook and line."-Daniel Webster.

"If you do not know a river it is always most desirable to have someone with you who does."-Francis Francis.

49. The Teal.

52. No. 68.
55. Widow.
58. March Brown.
61. King of the
Water.

50. Reuben Wood. 51. Red Spinner. 53. Hawthorne.

56. Grasshopper.
59. Shoemaker.
62. Gen. Hooker.

54. Dorset.

57. Stebbins.
60. Orange Black.
63. Gray Drake.

The angler atte the leest, hath his holsom walke, and mery at his ease, a swete ayre of the swete savoure of the mede floures, that makyth him hungry; he hereth the melodyous armony of fowles; he seeth the yonge swannes, heerons, duckes, cotes, and many other fowles, wyth theyr brodes; whyche me semyth better than alle the noyse of houndys, the blastes of hornys, and the scrye of foulis, that hunters, fawkeners, and fowlers can make. And if the angler take fysshe; surely, thenne, is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte."-Dame Juliana Berners.

"Skill, and trained skill at that, does the good work, and the angler's score is just in proportion to his knowledge of 'how to do it.'"- Wm. C. Harris.