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 be given in the third section of this chapter, cannot be viewed as having a tendency to strengthen their position, and to establish them as Strafford bragged he would establish Charles the First and his posterity in wealth, strength, and glory, far above any of their progenitors.

The question of trout-fishing is complicated by the vast increase of population which renders "free trout-fishing" a very different thing from what it was when the population was comparatively small. I know nothing to which the word Conservative may be more judiciously applied than to the preservation of the fair pursuit of trout-fishing; that is to the angling for trout with the artificial fly, and not to the use of certain kinds of bait which may tend to the production of a large bag, but to the destruction of all fair fishing, and only to be practised by those who fish, not for health and sport, but for the pot, and bring discredit on angling as turning it to a mere trade in fish.