8 INTRODUCTOKY REMARKS. 



element twenty trout by main force, aided by a lob-worm 

 or roe-bait, stands in the same relation to him who baskets 

 his three or four brace with the artificial fly and single gut 

 artistically cast, as the gunner who pot-hunts his bagful of 

 birds, treeing his ruffed grouse, and butchering his quail in 

 their huddles on the ground, does to the crack shot, who 

 stops his cock in a blind brake, with the eye of faith and 

 the finger of instinct, or cuts down his wild- fowl, skating 

 before the wind at the rate of a mile a minute, deliberately 

 rapid and unerring. 



