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FLY-FISHER'S TEXT BOOK. 



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THE AUTHOR DISOOUCISETH ON THE DKLIOHTS OF FLV-FISHING— SETTINO 

 FORTH ITS SUPERIORITY ABOX'F. At.l. OTHER SPORTS. 



What angler will acknowledge other pleasures 

 equal to his own ? Yet is it not the sport alone 

 which draws us with magnetic influence to fix us 

 spell-bound by the river's side. No — we have yet 

 a brighter source of true enjoyment in the pure 

 air and tranquil country scenes, which wait upon 

 our wanderings. One while, amid the wildest 

 sources of the mountain stream— anon, beside the 

 lovely lowland river. Now tempting its placid 

 depths of pool,— its freshening runs,— its eddying, 

 gurghng, glistening rockholes ;— or pausing to 

 admire the majestic plunge of some adjacent 

 waterfall. What is so beneficial to a body worn 

 with the many cares of study, or close application 

 to a worldly calling, as the free relaxation inwhich 



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