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seem to see no fun in it.) As miy frst 
fish, a gudgeon, was caught about forty- 
five years ago, when I was a small boy 
in Lincolnshire, and as since then I have 
caught many thousands of every other 
fresh-water fish to be found in England, 
including a trout nearly ten pounds in 
weight, I suppose I may include myself 
as one of the former class. But I had 
nobody to show me the right way to go 
to work, and so it took me a very long 
time to know what to do and what not 
todo. And this latter is more important 
than the former. There are) (suem 
numbers of books on fishing that there 
is hardly room for another ; but if I ever 
wrote one, it would be on what zo¢ to 
do when fishing. 
And, when fishing for carp especially, 
the list of things you shou/dn’t do would 
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