Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-30

give 1t back to tho company. Yes; a sweet voiced girl old enough to have been my father said that to me in a large city over the wires once in the purple past.
 am fishing here for trout and restor- ing tired nature by wading in the ice cold streams by day and making ar engagements by night for kind neighbors hero to meet me along the streams with trout on the following day.
 My physician advised me to come here, and fearing that might overtax myself he came along, and when he thinks I have done enough he takes me away to a spring by the mountain brook, where the wild thyme blows or the mint or something that has medical properties i'll it, and out of a large carboy'of fluid extract of some kind marked ''Poison" and For Medical Purps Only" he makes sort of infusion or treaturate that shows what rapid strides the practice of medicine is making.
 Trout here are very plentiful indeed. Even the bear, the wolf, the panther and the serpent Scoot around the uplands yet and l was told that salt placed in a retired spot would bring the bear in great quantities, as they are very fond of salt.
 Maybe this is not true. A neighbor who had been selling me what eggs I used on the farm for two years told me that my hens needed corn soaked in brine, and that would find this a good thing, as it would also have tendency to keep them out of the garden. It did keep them out of tho garden, but not out of future state.
 We farmers believe too readily what is told us, We are not conservative enough, especially when we go to town. Politically, too, can say, for one, that ill trying to believe everything that was told mo I have two or three times "overhet" myself
 Perhaps it might interest the true sportsman if were to tell how killed my first trout here. have beautiful rod, which was a gift from a great manufacturer of these artistic imple- ments. My line is q perfect dream, and I borrowed sweet little nickel reel of young lady here whose kindness I shall never forget while reason contin ues to usurp her throne.
 have a volume of flies, some of them with yellow bosoms and blue feet, while others have more hectic complexion, with moth patches on them. Some are called coachmen. used at first a fly that I made myself according to rec ipe of Mr. Seth Greens. If I could have thought of it in time and handed in my design previous to the creation, some of my friends think it would have been adopted,
 It is cross between the snake feeder, or dragon fly, and the infant buzzard. But it frightens a dumb animal so to look at it. and it makes such plunk in casting it, that took one that bought at our store at home Attaching this to six feet of strangulated "leader, and that again to the line, looked careful ly to my reel and rod, put on pair of wading boots, and the first day got mired.
 That evening we played six hand euchre.
 On the following day cast my fly n few times, but got no results until put on tall acrobatic worm. Long before evening I got a rise Trout here rise | readily to the worm. I was so Surprised at the attack of the trout that almost 1 forgot to play him, but coolness soon comes to the true sportsman. Noticing that the stream did not give much room for playing the speckled beauty, as he is called, threw him into the top of dead tree, resolved to dash out his brains, or, failing in that, to sell my life as dearly as possible. It did l not kill him at once, but while debat- | ing whether I should climb the tree with my hunting knife and dispatch him or not lucky thought came tC me, for fortunately at such time am almost sure to have my wits about me, and it occurred to me that I would re- main at the foot of the tree until he died from exposure.
 l realize that in giving the above de scription there is little of interest to tho coarse youth who simply feeds trout what he like \ best to eat and then jerk him out and sells him to the true sports man, but by any one who has for year' talked and thought of nothing but an gling and meantime lived on salt mack erel and canned salmon I know that ev cry line will be read with interest.
 This is a most beautiful country, anl so full of game and fish, having beer preserved for over five years, that it vii soon be full of people. Many preciou stones are found here and rich mineral of every description. A large basin be tween the mountains will be fioode, and an artificial lake thus made. A rail road is almost completed to Brevard, morning s ride from Sapphire, and yer, soon this wild and delightful solitud will also have the choo choo cars scarinl the