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Show TROUT WORTH CATCHING. T 11 tell you a tale of how the big-best big-best fish ho ever caught' didn't get away," said a returned vacationer yesterday. yes-terday. "I'd been flslng along a little lit-tle brook near Mllford. Pa., for three aggravating hours and had only hooked hook-ed four trout that measured up light. It was the meanest brook to fish yon ever saw. Bru6h aud briars hung over it from both sides so thickly thick-ly that you could not walk on either bunk, and my hobnailu wouldn't etlck on the slippery rocks any too well. It was necessary to take tho tip off my rod and I was pocking the stub with about twenty feet of line out ahead of mo which the current carried safely down stream. I moved very cautloiihly so as not to roll the water, for you know that muddy water wat-er Is a danger signal for tho wary trout. As I advanced I heard three of thoso nasty rattlers eaking their talis, and when luck was not improved I had about made up my mind to pull and wind up when "Zlng-g-g-g went my reel, and Just ahead a trout broke -water. The brief glance I had of hini showed that ho was no piker to be ladled on the measure. meas-ure. I gave him all the lino he wanted n his first rush and then pushed the brake on the reel. I took a few steps forward, aud for a moment the fish was quiet, and I made up my mind that I bad lost him. A turn or two of the reel handle dissipated dis-sipated that fear, however, and somewhere some-where below me so far down stream that I could not see for tho overhang I heard a splash and knew that he had broken water again. Then tho lino fell limply In the water, and this time I knew ho was off. Reeling in, I found my best leader gone, together with about four feet of line. "Luckily. I had a silver-topped flask a misguided friend gave me last Chrl6tmas, along, and silently I drank to the gamely fellow who had won out. Reeling up, I started dowu stream, lookiug for an opening to get out of the bed of tho brook, for I had a fisherman's hunch that It would be of no use to fish any louger. for 1 had lost tho king of them all. Soon a cow wallow appeared as the stream widened, and a barbed wlro fence was stretched across the stream to keep the cattle from going down the brook. On this fence was hung a board sign with a notice that fishing aud hunting were prohibited. I couldn't help but smiling as I thought of tho satisfaction tho poster would take If ho knew of my loss. "Wading to the bank, I sat down and proceeded to 011 my pipe, when I noted that the lower strand of the fence seemed to be considerably moro agitated than the rippling current warranted. On dose Jn vestlg.ntlon I paw a piece of line had caught on a barb, and then It dawned on m what had happened. My trout, had broken water just at lhat point, and as the leader and line 'flew through the air In parting the end had knotted nicely around the barb, halting the J flfli in his mad rush. I |