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result of my own experience, and although I have 

 caught salmon with minnow and worm, and have seen 

 them caught with a prawn, I hardly ever use anything 

 but the fly, and have no claim whatever to be con- 

 sidered an expert with other lures. 



I cannot leave this subject without confessing the 

 magnetic attraction a tackle maker's window has for 

 me as I walk the streets of London. We are apt to 

 jeer at the fair sex when we find it difficult to get them 

 past a splendid array of new bonnets or the newest 

 fashionable millinery, but they might justly retaliate if 

 they saw us with our noses flattened against certain 

 windows in Pall Mall, the Strand or Temple Bar. 

 The long array of rods, the display of bronzed winches, 

 the tempting flies, the appetising prawns in their grave 

 of glycerine, move one's wonder that any fish can have 

 self-denial enough to resist such attractions, and turn 

 our thoughts to Melrose, Abbotsford, and theTay, and 

 the memories of long past conflicts. 



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