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Hello, I'm Nelson Olstead. Today I want to tell you how a British novelist left his mark on sports fishing in the American West. First here's Clint Gueger with a few well-spoken words about Pacific Power.

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Now, Nelson has his storybook open. Here's today's chapter. Whether the English novel called Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens is a literary masterpiece is not for us to decide, suffice it to say that the book completely commanded the attention of an attractive young lady in Northern California during the 1870s. She was Alda McLeod, a 16-year-old

Miss who helped her uncle manage a popular summer resort near Dunsmere, California. The The resort famed for trout fishing in the Sacramento River was known as Upper Soda Springs Inn. One day, Elder's uncle, George Campbell, said to her, Hey, that must be some book you're reading, Elder. You've had your nose in it all afternoon. Barnaby-Rudge by Dickens. Well,

it must be good. But curiously enough, young Elder McLeod was impressed by just one character the author had created in his story, a lovely coquette who flunked through the pages of the book, clad in gowns made of flowers, sprinkled dimity. Being sixteen, Elder was quite aware of the fact that a popular fashion in women's dress had been inspired by this Charles Dickens

character, and she was consumed by the desire to wear one of these fashionable gowns. Well, one day later that summer, a party of fishermen was returning from an expedition of the Sacramento River. Their creels were full of sleek, brightly speckled trout. As they crossed the lawn in front of those springs in, one of them called the manager over and