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AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. 



your leader and dropper, and light a fresh pipe ; and as you 

 wade into the limpid water, you will find your rod to deliver 

 the line straighter, and your flies to fall lighter than they did 

 a few hours ago, and yourself cooler in the contest that awaits 

 you with the speckled beauty that refused your fly before 

 dinner, and is now ready to give you a tussle ; and the expe- 

 rience of the " Houseless" has been that the rift or the pool 

 nearest our fire furnishes a few moments of the most active 

 and exciting sport we experience in the day's fishing. 



