"Don't the trout fight after you hook them?" asked Charley. "I always heard they fought to get away, and you had to play them and tire them out before you landed them."
"They never fights in winter, and your fishin' pole is strong enough so she won't be hurt any by heavin' they out soon as you hooks un," grinned Toby. "'Tis too cold to play with un any. Just heave un up on the ice. They don't feel much like sportin' about this weather."
Charley had scarcely dropped his line into the water, when Violet gave a little scream of delight, and cried:
"I gets one! I gets the first un!" and with a mighty yank she flung a three-pound trout clear of the hole.
A few minutes later Charley, no less excited and thrilled, landed one that was even larger than the one Violet had caught, and at the end
