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GENERAL REMARKS. 
WE live in times in which, as we are constantly being 
told, the “schoolmaster is abroad,’ and certainly the 
dwellers in what the late Mr. Hood described as the 
“ Eely-Places” have come in for their full share of educa- 
tional advantages. No well-informed Pike or Trout is 
now to be ensnared by the simple devices which proved 
fatal to his progenitors in the good old days of innocence 
and Izaak Walton: and were we to sally forth with the 
gear bequeathed to us by our great-grandfathers of 
lamented memory we should expect to see the whole 
finny tribe rise up to repel with scorn the insult offered 
to their understanding. Owing doubtless to the rapidly 
increasing popularity of fishing of late years, there are 
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