Tale of the Trout Stream William Hulbert

Tale of the Trout Stream William Hulbert; Technically, this is not strictly a fishing article. It’s a piece of fiction about a trout’s life in which fishermen and fishing play a tangential role. The author, William Davenport Hulbert (1868-1913), was a noted environmental writer best known for his book White Pine Days on the Taquamenon, an exceptional book about about logging in Michigan. Mostly, however, the article is remembered for its lovely illustrations by Walter Manly Hardy (1877-1933), a noted illustrator and artist from Brewer, Maine. — Ed.

A TALE OF THE TROUT STREAM
By William Davenport Hulbert

It was winter, and the trout stream ran low in its banks,
hidden from the sky by a thick shell of ice and snow. But the trout stream was used to that, and it slipped along in the semi-darkness, undismayed, talking to itself in low, murmuring tones, and dreaming of the time when spring should come back and all the rivers should be full.

Mingled with its waters, and borne onward and downward
by its current, were multitudes of the tiniest bubbles and particles of air — most of them too small to be seen by the human eye, yet large enough to be the very breath of life to thousands and thousands of living creatures. They went wherever the water could go, and some of them worked down into the gravel of the riverbed, and there, between the pebbles, they found a vast number of little balls of yellow-brown jelly, each about as large as a small pea. And the air-bubbles touched the trout-eggs gently, and in some wonderful way their oxygen passed in through the pores of the shells, and the little lives within were quickened and stirred……

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