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AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. 



Cast, slowly, long, light: let your stretcher sink a little. 

 There he has taken the Ginger — lead him around gently to 

 the shallow side as you reel him in, but don't move from 

 your position — let him tug awhile, put your net under him, 

 break his neck, and slip him into your creel. Draw your line 

 through the rings — cast again ; another, and another. Keep 

 on until you can see only the ripple made by your fly ; or 

 know when it falls, by the slight tremor it imparts through 

 the whole line down to your hand — until the whip-poor-will 

 begins his evening song, and the little water-frog tweets in 

 the grass close by. — Not till then is it time to go home. 



If you have dined on the stream, it may be that the Trout 

 you roasted were too highly seasoned and you are thirsty ; if 

 so, stop at the old spring by the roadside. 



