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know something about climbing with fearlessness. 

 And it is to those that Coleman's " Angler's 

 Friend," as well as the portable bill-hook, prove 

 "friends in need and indeed." Some very, 

 few there are who could almost throw amidst a 

 thick forest without risk ! and if you can, by ex- 

 treme practice, achieve a victory over difficulties 

 such as I shall now point out, you will gain the 

 advantage of fishing places unwhipped before, or 

 little flogged over, however numerous the body of 

 anglers on the river ; and also catch the best fish ; 

 for such usually lurk in the most sequested, shel- 

 tered spots, trout especially. Now, for instance, 

 first drawing my bird's eye plan, the arrow show- 

 ing the course of the stream; (and by the way, this 



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is the identical representation of a spot we shall, 

 perhaps, get at to-morrow) ; suppose you wish to 

 throw to A, while standing on the projecting point 



