hirty-one in the evening quiet.

"My host had a good deal of correspondence to attend to, and I was
often out alone, but his gillie reported that he had placed in the
great floating well moored off the veranda 273 fish, the produce of our
two rods during the period specified. These figures must not be
accepted as evidence of greedy fishing or anything of that kind, nor
are they written down in boastfulness. They are given simply because
they record the story of the stocking, and because the sport, which, on
the face of it, looks not unlike slaughter, was part of the necessary
work of keeping down the head of fish in the lake. 'Kill as many as
you can; there are far too many,' was the sort of order one need never
hesitate to obey. The majority of these rainbow trout were apparently
in the condition best described as well-mended. The biggest fish I
took was a golden-brown fario of 1 1/4 lb., probably an old inhabitant;
and there were pounders amongst the few fontinalis taken.

"The point to which I trust to have brought the reader is that here was
a lake which in the matter of sport may be regarded as an angler's
paradise, and I may add that the success I enjoyed is the common
experience. The young ladies often caught their two dozen trout in a
two or three hours' paddle on a lovely sheet of water set in glorious
surroundings of forest in which the wild boar lurks and the deer hides.
Nobody was sent empty away. Just as a change from the chalk streams or
other rivers at home, a day or two of such boat fishing is a real
restful treat. Every loch fisher knows what I mean, and we need not
talk about skill. In my boat during this visit I had one day the
company of the worthy city knight who had caught his first trout on the
day of my arrival. His worship genially allowed me to lecture him as
to the simple rules for casting a fly, and when he would swish a
three-quarter pound fish aloft in the air as if it were an ounce perch,
to use language for which he would have fined me at the Mansion House.
After losing two rainbows in this wild work he got well into the
practice of casting and playing, and so, quite in workmanlike style, he
caught seven good fish, besides breakages."

In later years there was a considerable change in the character of the
fishing. The rainbows from Herr Jaffe had been installed something
over two years when they and we foregathered in this pleasant manner,
and the fish caught would average