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FISHER^LVNS LURES 



ingly on the jump for live bait. Five dollars spent 

 in lures is a mighty good investment compared to 

 that required in purchasing live bait. There is 

 trouble in lures as in live bait, but of a different 

 kind, which the amateur will soon find out for him- 

 self, and he will at last conclude, as I have after 

 many years' practice, that angling is a curious mix- 

 ture of pleasure and pain — the latter most often 

 predominating. All the same, we like it, and are 

 never tired, whatever the result may be. 



