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The Little Fish and the Fisherman

(373) the whereabouts of his game-another teen pounds. They are very abundant in and another! -aha! that last has roused the Scotch rivers, where they are taken him; again he throws himself clear out of water, and again foiled in his attempt to smash the tackle, dashes away down the stream impetuous. with nets, sometimes two hundred at a haul, and with a hook, one man sometimes taking thirty in a day. They feed on flies, beetles, insects, etc., and are "But his strength is departing; the common to Europe and the waters around vigor of his rush is broken. The angler the Gulf of St. Lawrence in North Amergives him the butt abundantly, strains on ica. him with a heavier pull, yet ever yields a The Common European Trout is hardly little as he exerts his failing powers; see, less celebrated among sportsmen of the his broad silver side has thrice turned up, rod than the Salmon. It is ten to thirty even to the surface, and though each time inches long, the average being about fifhe has recovered himself, each time it teen; the weight is one to twenty pounds; has been with a heavier and more sickly in form and color it is exceedingly beaumotion. tiful. It is an inhabitant of rivers and "Brave fellow! his last race is run- lakes, and is a voracious feeder, but is his last spring sprung; no more shall he cautious, vigilant and active, and calls disport himself in the bright reaches of into exercise the utmost skill of the the Tamar; no more shall the Naiads angler. During the day, the large-sized wreathe his clear silver scales with river fish move but little from their haunts, but greens and flowery rushes. "The cruel gaff is in his side; his cold blood stains the eddies for a moment; he flaps out his death-pang on the hard limestone. "Who-whoop! a nineteen-pounder!"